The compatriots : the brutal and chaotic history of Russia's exiles, émigrés, and agents abroad
"Moscow-based journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan look at the complex, ever-shifting role of Russian emigrés since the 1917 October Revolution to the present day. From secret agents to doomed dissidents, the story of Russian emigrés is an invaluable angle through which to understand R...
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| Ort / Verlag / Datum: | New York : PublicAffairs, October 2019 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Klassifikation: | 947 Geschichte Russlands und Osteuropas
327 Europäische Union, Internationale Politik 305.89171 947.08 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 361 Seiten; Illustrationen |
| Anmerkungen: | Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Soviet/Russian foreign intelligence organizations and departments in charge of keeping tabs on Russian emigrés
- Cast of characters
- Introduction
- Part I: Spies and dissidents
- Talent spotting
- Identifying targets
- The cost of love
- "The Horse"
- "The Mother"
- Operations area: United States
- The tide turns
- Warring narratives
- Stalin's daughter
- Now it's official
- Bear in the West
- The KGB thinks big
- Moving people
- The other Russia
- Part II: Market forces
- Moving the money
- The scheme devised
- Muddying the waters
- Some habits die hard
- Cooperation and rebranding
- Part III. Putin's project
- A fresh start
- The siege
- Getting out the message
- The crisis
- Courting the White Church
- Reunion
- Part IV. Means of outreach
- Political emigration: restart
- Illusions crushed
- "We need some targeted hits"
- Desperate times
- When the party's over
- Eliminating the problem
- Chasing a poison
- Everything old is new again
- The fears of the super-rich
- Epilogue.
Jahrhundertschicksale : Frauen im sowjetischen Exil