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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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Many Faces of Russian Anti-Communism
- 1: A Fissile National Community: The Political World of Russian Émigrés
- 2: 'A Political Maze based on the Shifting Sand': the Vlasov Movement and the Gehlen Organization in postwar Germany
- 3: Socialists and Vlasovites: War Memories and a Troubled Cross-Continental Encounter
- Part II: The Transnational Quest for Russian Liberation
- 4: American Visions and Émigré Realities: The American Project to Unify the Russian Exiles
- 5: Builders and Dissectors: Émigré Unification and the Russian Question
- 6: Reluctant Chieftains: The Ascendance of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism
- Part III: The CIA Operational Front
- 7: From Revolution to Provocation: The NTS and CIA Covert Operations
- 8: Spies, Sex, and Balloons: Émigré Activities in Divided Berlin
- 9: The Real Anti-Soviet Russians? Soviet Defectors and the Cold War
- Part IV: The End of the Affair: The Decline of Émigré Anti-Communism
- 10: 'All will be Forgiven': The Soviet Campaign for Return to the Homeland
- 11: Unreliable Allies: The German Crucible and Russian Anti-Communism
- Conclusion
About the author
Benjamin Tromly is Professor of History at University of Puget Sound, where he teaches Russian and European History. He is the author of Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khrushchev.
Summary
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.
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Tromly's book...will remain an essential guide to the murky world of covert operations, anti-Soviet plots, and propaganda in the early Cold War.
