KGB : the inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev / Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky

New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 776 pp., [24] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Contents; Tsarist Origins (1565 -- 1917) -- The Cheka, Counterrevolution, and the ""Lockhart conspiracy"" (1917 -- 21) -- Foreign intelligence and ""active measures"" in the Dzerzhinsky era (1919 -27) -- Stalin and spy mania (1926 -- 38) -- ""Enemies of the people"" abroad (1929 -- 40) -- Sigint, agent penetration, and the magnificent five from Cambridge (1930 -- 39) -- The Second World War (1939 -- 41) -- The Great Patriotic War (1941 -- 45) -- The takeover of eastern Europe (1944 -- 48) -- The Cold War: The Stalinist Phase (1945 -- 53) -- The Cold War after Stalin (1953 -- 63) -- The Brezhnev Era: The East, the Third World, and the West (1964 -- 72/73) -- The decline and fall of Detente (1972 -- 84) -- The Gorbachev era 1985. Subjects; Lenin, Vladimir Il ich 1870-1924. Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931-2022. Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno bezopasnosti History. URSS. History.