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'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The Times

For years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret material from Russian secret service archives beneath his family dacha. When he was exfiltrated to the West he took with him what the FBI called 'the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source'. This extraordinary bestselling book is the result.

'Co-authored in a brilliant partnership by Christopher Andrew and the renegade Soviet archivist himself ... This is a truly global exposé of major KGB penetrations throughout the Western world' The Times

'This tale of malevolent spymasters, intricate tradecraft and cold-eyed betrayal reads like a cold war novel' Time

'Sensational ... the most informed and detailed study of Soviet subversive intrigues worldwide' Spectator

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Christopher Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University and one of the world's leading intelligence historians. His many books include KGB: The Inside Story (with Oleg Gordievsky) and the bestselling The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized Official History of MI5.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (28 June 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1040 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141989483
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141989488
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 726 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 4.4 x 19.8 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom

Best Sellers Rank: #3,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sukanya Baliarsingh

Finest reads ever.

Reviewed in India on 15 June 2020

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Just got it delivered for 800 bucks. Seems a bit unfair, the price hike, but the book is all worth it. Will be buying volume 2 soon.

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read it if you have interest in history and the past and the spying :-)

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started reading it ... 1000 pages to go. but reading needs full concentration .. also read it only and only if you have interest in the history and the past... after all its not a fantasy fiction !!!

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Rare kind of book

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Extremely elaborate. Huge patience and sincerity needed to read. Commendable effort of writer

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appropriate cost

Reviewed in India on 11 December 2019

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book is excellent without any doubt but the issue is, according to my copy its price is Rs 2500/- and now after a month its reduced to Rs 999/- (i am talking about original cost excluding the discount) feeling CHEATED.

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Information maybe great but product is average.

Reviewed in India on 18 March 2020

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Book is good, haven't started yet.... Paper and paperback cover are of average quality

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Somehow did not enthrall me as I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2020

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This book contains important information about Soviet espionage in the West during the Cold War, and is co-written by a Soviet defector who brought a large number of official records with him and historian Christopher Andrew, some of whose lectures on modern European history I attended as a student long ago, and a very good lecturer he was too. He was since appointed official historian of British intelligence. So, this book ought to be good.

Unfortunately, for some reason it just did not enthrall me. I can't say why, it just didn't.

It does though show how up to the 1950s, Soviet Intelligence gained a lot of information from successful people of ability in the West who, however mistakenly, genuinely believed in Communism.

Thereafter, as the cruel repression and economic failures of the Eastern bloc became more generally known, fewer people were willing to pass information out of ideological commitment. Soviet intelligence had to rely more on often junior people with purely mercenary or grudge motives to sell secrets. Such people, having no more loyalty to the Soviet Union than they had to their own countries, were less reliable agents.

Even where the Soviets received information, their ideology could get in the way of using it effectively. Having shot many of their own senior people in the 1930s for supposedly spying for Britain, it was embarrassing to be told by their agents inside British intelligence Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Cairncross and Blunt that Britain had no espionage operation inside the USSR at that time. This caused some in Soviet intelligence to question the reliability of reports from Philby and the others.

During World War II, Stalin refused to believe that senior Nazi Rudolf Hess's flight to Britain was not part of some British plot to make a separate peace with Germany, or else to make Hess the head of a British controlled puppet government in Germany.

During the War the NKVD (later called KGB) probably helped the Soviet war effort less by providing reliable intelligence about the enemy than by internal terror against anyone, civilian or soldier, suspected of disloyalty, ensuring that unlike in 1917 there would be no internal revolt.

Subsequently, in the Cold War, KGB intelligence did not prevent Soviet leaders and generals from believing dangerous fantasies that NATO was plotting a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union.

If you want to read a really interesting and more lively book that touches on Soviet agents and sympathisers in the USA during the Cold War, if you can cope with her flippant and partisanly right-wing style, then I recommend the brilliant but controversial Ann Coulter's book 'Treason'.

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A fantastic read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2020

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The Mitrokhinarchives opens up an additional perspective on understanding global politics. I read the part on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and it helped me understand the politics of the left in the three countries. More important, it helped me understand why intelligence is critical for policymaking, especially good intelligence. The KGB had become too top heavy and regimented which is why it began to err in analysing intel.

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Historically important book, not for the beginner though.

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Really strong analysis of the impact of his papers and, to some extent, the impact they have had on our understanding of what has happened. Just wish I could dig a bit deeper! Very interesting and highly recommended.

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chrissie

Looks interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2020

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I can’t help here as it was a gift for somebody else...... sorry!

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Maximilian

Great insight

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2020

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A really interesting book regarding the KGB. highly recommended. Worth checking out Yuri Bezmenov too.

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