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The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946–2024
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The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946–2024
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The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946-2024 is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Using recently opened archival KGB and US intelligence documents, memoirs, and personal interviews with former KGB officers in post-Soviet Ukraine, this book analyzes the Soviet strategy of "using their enemies" for promoting their own political interests, especially directed at the problems of Ukrainian nationalism and independence. This volume investigates KGB operations establishing a foothold within the American Slavic studies community during the Cold War. The KGB, and their current successors the Russian FSB, use Russian emigrants and academics to promote pro-Kremlin and pro-Putin myths within North American research institutes. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of contemporary Russian intelligence operations targeting American-Russian academics and promoting Russian state interests in the ongoing war against Ukraine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- Introduction: Russian Academic Imperialism in the West and Soviet/Russian Intelligence
- Chapter 1: The KGB and Founding of the Soviet Studies Centers in Capitalist America, 1946–1960
- Chapter 2: The KGB and International Academic Connections in the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Chapter 3: The “KGB People” and Soviet Americanists in International Academic Exchanges
- Chapter 4: The KGB Spies, Infiltration into American Society, and KGB “Sleeper Cells/Illegals”
- Chapter 5: The KGB, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges
- Chapter 6: “Academic Imperialism”: Writing Soviet and Post-Soviet History Without Ukraine and the Role of the Russian Post-Soviet Immigration to the West
- Chapter 7: “The Agents of Influence”: Post-Soviet Oligarchs, Russian Intelligence Service, and Slavic Studies Centers in the West
- Epilogue: KGB Legacy and Failed “Westernization” of Russia
- Appendix: List of Interviews
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author