The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World Paperback – 28 Jun. 2018

Gosh - what a tangle web we we when we first try to deceive, incredible detail and outlandish truths how the Politically driven Secret Services socialise their doctrine and carve the territories for selfish gain - a riveting read.

good read , Vasili Mitrokhin a very brave man who everybody should know of

If you aren't familiar with this top notch history derived from extensive and carefully corroborated KGB archival material, you aren't qualified to comment authoritatively on late 20th century history, simple as that.

Mitrokhin One was a masterpiece. If you want to understand the bedrock upon which Soviet thinking is based. You could do a lot worse than starting here and following his references.

Brilliant! 100%. Really pleased.

Whatever value this book may have in relation to understanding KGB operations in the Third World is seriously undermined by the way that the material is presented. Christopher Andrew's anti-communist bias is relentless and rapidly becomes extremely tiresome. Instead of simply referring to the Soviet Union, for example, Andrew refers to "the intolerant Soviet one-party state", Cuban support for revolutionary movements in Africa and Latin America is attributed to "delusions of grandeur" on the part of Fidel Castro, supporters of Cuba are ridiculed as being the victims of "self-administered brain surgery" (the sneering tone even extends to some of the captions to photographs in the book of Soviet leaders and others of whom Andrew disapproves), while The New York Times is denounced for devoting too much space to human rights abuses in Chile and too little to deaths under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (Andrew gives a figure of 1.5 million deaths, but provides no details and no source for this figure). This sloppy and biased presentation is pervasive throughout the book. The dustjacket proclaims Andrew as "the world's leading intelligence scholar". This book, unfortunately, is far from scholarly.

Interesting !

Le livre est arrivé dans un emballage souple, de type pastique ample, sans aucune protection pour le livre, sans carton pour protéger les coins.Comme c'était un colis international, il est sans doute passé par de multiples mains peu soucieuse de protéger le colis et de manipuler avec soins

Super interessant!

Has a lot of detail in it. Takes a long time to read. In the end it was worth the money and was a really good book.

Inside approach of the mysterious world of KGB. Very interesting to have an "Eastern" point of view.