The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents

Tatiana Vagramenko; Nadezhda Beliakova

doi:10.5771/9781666938463

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3845-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3846-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 330
Product type: Edited Book

1. Cover No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Note on Transliteration No access
  2. Archival Reference Style No access
  3. Archives No access
  4. Note No access
1. In Search of Truth and Justice: The Secret Police Archives No access
2. Soviet-Era Collaboration Stories No access
3. Under the Watchful Eye of the Soviet Political Police No access
4. Shades of Collaboration No access
5. About This Book No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Alexandra Tolstykh: A Witness for the Prosecution No access
2. Mapping Religious Dissent in OGPU Records No access
3. The Secret Monastery of Hieromonk Erasm through the Eyes of the Novice Sania No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Exarch of Ukraine and Metropolitan of Kyiv Ioann Sokolov (Agent “Ptitsyn”) No access
2. Bishop Nikon Petin of Donetsk and Voroshilovhrad (Agent “Petrov”) No access
3. Bishop Makarii Oksiuk of L’viv and Ternopil’ (Agent “Glebov”) No access
4. Bishop Sergii Larin of Odesa (Agent “Usov”) No access
5. Bishop Mikhail Rubinskii of Kherson and Mykolaїv (Agent “Vostochnyi”) No access
6. Archbishop Andrei Komarov of Dnipropetrovs’k and Zaporizhzhia (Agent “Spokoinyi”) No access
7. Agent Selection and Oversight No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Failed Attempts to Legitimize the Pentecostals in the Soviet Union No access
2. Soviet Prophecies No access
3. Operation “The Prophets”: Agent “Ianek” No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Surveilling Religion in Latvia No access
2. The Case of the Roman Catholic Priests Zondaks and Trops No access
3. The Case of Lutheran Bishop Kārlis Irbe No access
4. Infiltrating the Other Side of the Iron Curtain No access
5. New Recruitment Techniques No access
6. Revival and Renewal No access
7. Questionnaire for a Potential KGB Agent No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Selected Bibliography No access
1. The Career of Father Murani in the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo No access
2. Soviet Plan to Liquidate the Mukachevo Greek Catholic Eparchy No access
3. Recruitment of Fr. Murani as an Agent No access
4. Arrest and Gulag No access
5. New Recruitment and Exile No access
6. Challenges and Dilemmas in the Undercover Work of “Sova” No access
7. The Struggle against UGCC and Investigating the Vatican No access
8. Last Years of Secret Service No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. Notes No access
11. Selected Bibliography No access
1. The Religious Landscape of the Late USSR: Unregistered Evangelical Christians-Baptists No access
2. Unveiling the Internal Dynamics of an Underground Religious Community No access
3. Insights into an Agent’s Family Life No access
4. Denouncing the Religious Underground No access
5. “Topsy’s” Role in the Church Community No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Karaganda No access
2. Printing Underground No access
3. Everyday Life Under the Watchful Eye of the Secret Services No access
4. Conclusion: Görzen as a Member of a Special Trusted Group No access
5. Notes No access
6. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Agent Work in the Context of the Soviet State’s Policy Towards Islam No access
2. Pan-Islamism No access
3. Agent Operation “The pan-Islamist Rebellious and Espionage Organization of khazret Sagidulla Istleuov” No access
4. The Secret Operation Chain of the Qur’an No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Selected Bibliography No access
1. Secret Documents for the Turkish Ambassador No access
2. Emina Akchurina Before 1923 No access
3. The Confrontation No access
4. The “Crooked Regional Committee,” Ordzhonikidze, and Rabbits No access
5. Final Interrogation No access
6. Rehabilitation No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Selected Bibliography No access
Archives: Parameters of the Past and Present No access Pages 283 - 310
Index No access Pages 311 - 326
About the Contributors No access Pages 327 - 330