Hammer, sickle, and crescent.(The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World)(Book review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. New York: Basic Books, 2005.677 pp. $29.95.

One of the worst mistakes ever made by the KGB, the Soviet security agency, was to punish one of its agents, Vasili Mitrokhin, for a critical remark about the regime in 1972 by demoting him to archivist. In that position, Mitrokhin copied large numbers of documents and hid them at his country house. As the Soviet Union was crumbling, he offered the cache to the British in exchange for his family's rescue from the ...

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