| ID | 148386 |
| Title Proper | KGB and its enduring legacy |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bateman, Aaron |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The creation of the Federal’naia Sluzhba Bezopasnosti in 1995 represented the eighth time that the Russian secret police underwent an organizational transformation since the contemporary service was created in the form of the Cheka in 1917. The post-Soviet Russian security services have been shaped by the early Soviet secret police’s identity as a domestic security service protecting the Bolshevik Party. After the USSR collapsed, the KGB did not die; its power increased to a level not seen since the Andropov era. The FSB is the most direct successor to the KGB’s domestic apparatus and functions as both an intelligence agency and the extrajudicial political police of the Russian Government. The FSB has become the dominant security institution in Russia, which is emblematic of the Russian state’s continuing and historical obsession with domestic security and the use of extrajudicial force to maintain political stability. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol. 29, No.1; Jan-Mar 2016:p.23-47 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol: 29 No 1 |
| Key Words | KGB ; Russia ; Enduring Legacy |