The Birth of the Soviet Secret Police: Lenin and History's Greatest Heist, 1917-1927

by Boris Volodarsky

Explores the formation of the precursor to the infamous KGB in the period after the Russian Revolution.

This book is new in every aspect and not only because neither the official history nor an unofficial history of the KGB, and its many predecessors and successors, exists in any language. In this volume, the author deals with the origins of the KGB from the Tsarist Okhrana (the first Russians secret political police) to the OGPU, Joint...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526792257
• ISBN13: 9781526792259
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Length: 376 Pages