KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991

Sergei I. Zhuk is Professor of History at Ball State University, USA. Since 1997 he has taught American colonial history and Russian/Soviet and Ukrainian history at Ball State University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. His research interests are international relations, knowledge production, cultural consumption, religion, popular culture and identity in the history of imperial Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union.

Introduction: Rise and Fall of the KGB in Soviet Ukraine after Stalin; Part I: Creating Models for the Special KGB Operations against the USA and Canada after WWII; Chapter 1: Legacy of the World War II: Ukrainian Nationalists in Diaspora and the Spy Schools in West Germany; Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Early Cold War: Re-Immigrants, the KGB Double Agents and "Zionist Jews"; Chapter 3: Communists and the Political Left in Capitalist America: A Case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky; Chapter 4: Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges; Part II: The KGB vs. Politicians and Tourists from "Capitalist America"; Chapter 5: "Shpionomania," or the American Spies Hysteria in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 6: The US Exhibitions and Technological/Industrial Espionage; Chapter 7: "Using the American Officials": From the KGB-CIA Collaboration to the Meddling in the US Politics; Part III: The KGB of Soviet Ukraine in the Cultural Cold War against Capitalist America; Chapter 8: KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 9: "American Influences" in Forbidden Literature, Non-Traditional Religions, Music, Video and Sex; Epilogue: "Learning from the Main Adversary" and Returning to the Soviet Anti-American and Anti-Fascist Scenario; Selected Bibliography