Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780198840404 |
ISBN10: | 0198840403 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 352 pages |
Size: | 241x161x25 mm |
Weight: | 1 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 8 black and white figures/illustrations |
140 |
Category:
Cold War Exiles and the CIA
Plotting to Free Russia
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 25 September 2019
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Short description:
At the height of the Cold War, as part of an effort to weaken the Soviet Union, the United States government recruited Russian exiles in the hope that they would be a powerful weapon in the American secret war. The CIA directed these uprooted citizens to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations, but with unpredictable outcomes.
Long description:
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, Cold War Exiles and the CIA examines how the CIA's Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany. What resulted was a transnational political sphere involving different groups of Russian exiles, American and German anti-communists, and spies operating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Inadvertently, CIA's patronage of Russian exiles forged a complex sub-front in the wider Cold War, demonstrating the ways in which the hostilities of the Cold War played out in ancillary conflicts involving proxies and non-state actors.
Detailed, well written and accessible to general readers, the book mines rich veins of paradox and complexity.
Detailed, well written and accessible to general readers, the book mines rich veins of paradox and complexity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Fissile National Community: The Political World of Russian Émigrés
'A Political Maze based on the Shifting Sand': the Vlasov Movement and the Gehlen Organization in postwar Germany
Socialists and Vlasovites: War Memories and a Troubled Cross-Continental Encounter
American Visions and Émigré Realities: The American Project to Unify the Russian Exiles
Builders and Dissectors: Émigré Unification and the Russian Question
Reluctant Chieftains: The Ascendance of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism
From Revolution to Provocation: The NTS and CIA Covert Operations
Spies, Sex, and Balloons: Émigré Activities in Divided Berlin
The Real Anti-Soviet Russians? Soviet Defectors and the Cold War
'All will be Forgiven': The Soviet Campaign for Return to the Homeland
Unreliable Allies: The German Crucible and Russian Anti-Communism
Conclusion
A Fissile National Community: The Political World of Russian Émigrés
'A Political Maze based on the Shifting Sand': the Vlasov Movement and the Gehlen Organization in postwar Germany
Socialists and Vlasovites: War Memories and a Troubled Cross-Continental Encounter
American Visions and Émigré Realities: The American Project to Unify the Russian Exiles
Builders and Dissectors: Émigré Unification and the Russian Question
Reluctant Chieftains: The Ascendance of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism
From Revolution to Provocation: The NTS and CIA Covert Operations
Spies, Sex, and Balloons: Émigré Activities in Divided Berlin
The Real Anti-Soviet Russians? Soviet Defectors and the Cold War
'All will be Forgiven': The Soviet Campaign for Return to the Homeland
Unreliable Allies: The German Crucible and Russian Anti-Communism
Conclusion