Getting Ready to Fight the Dissidents: KGB, ideological subversion and Soviet intellectuals during the late Khrushchev era

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Abstract

The aim of this text is to show how the KGB, after actually acting as a "fire brigade" during the brutally suppressed uprising in Novocherkassk and some minor riots in the first half of the year 1962, significantly changed its course in the second half of 1962 and in 1963 and launched a new offensive aimed primarily at the intellectual elites of Soviet society.
Translated title of the contributionGöra sig redo att bekämpa oliktänkande: KGB, ideologisk diversion och de sovjetiska intellektuella i slutet av Chrusjtjoveran
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Cold War Studies
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2022 Feb 24

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • History
  • History of Ideas
  • Political Science

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