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‘An Honourable Task for Chekists’

‘An Honourable Task for Chekists’ Historians’ understanding of the involvement of the Soviet security services in the orchestration of the Moscow Olympics has heretofore been based on unsubstantiated rumours and anecdotes. Using previously unavailable sources, this article reveals for the first time how the ussr ’s coercive apparatus was mobilized to both neutralize perceived threats to Soviet national security produced by the Olympiad and assist the cpsu in using it to promote Soviet socialism in the outside world during the Brezhnev era. The implications of this episode for our understanding of the kgb ’s role in late Soviet politics are then considered, and compared with those which arise from a brief reading of the existing literature on the subject. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

‘An Honourable Task for Chekists’

Russian History , Volume 43 (3-4): 394 – Dec 30, 2016

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Brill
Copyright
© 2017 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Articles
ISSN
0094-288X
eISSN
1876-3316
DOI
10.1163/18763316-04304008
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Abstract

Historians’ understanding of the involvement of the Soviet security services in the orchestration of the Moscow Olympics has heretofore been based on unsubstantiated rumours and anecdotes. Using previously unavailable sources, this article reveals for the first time how the ussr ’s coercive apparatus was mobilized to both neutralize perceived threats to Soviet national security produced by the Olympiad and assist the cpsu in using it to promote Soviet socialism in the outside world during the Brezhnev era. The implications of this episode for our understanding of the kgb ’s role in late Soviet politics are then considered, and compared with those which arise from a brief reading of the existing literature on the subject.

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Russian HistoryBrill

Published: Dec 30, 2016

Keywords: Olympics; kgb ; mvd ; security; terrorism; Brezhnev; high politics; propaganda

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