Russian Intelligence from the October Revolution to Vladimir Putin

Christopher Andrew, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge will present on Russian Intelligence from the October Revolution to Vladimir Putin at this seminar organised by the UCL SSEES Russian Studies Seminar Series. Co-sponsored by the British-Latvian Association.

Throughout the Soviet era, religious practice was forbidden to all intelligence officers. Nowadays, the FSB has its own church in the centre of Moscow, which is open to the public. Russian intelligence history has changed too, thanks in part to top-secret KGB files exfiltrated through the Baltic republics. Intelligence files in Moscow are also changing our view of Stalin, who spent many years studying in great detail the huge dossier on him kept by the Tsarist Okhrana.

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