Venona
Venona

Author: John Earl Haynes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-04-10

Total Pages: 763

ISBN-13: 0300129874

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This groundbreaking historical study reveals the shocking infiltration of Soviet spies in America—and the top-secret cryptography program that caught them. Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies. This extraordinary book is the first to examine the Venona messages—documents of unparalleled importance for our understanding of the history and politics of the Stalin era and the early Cold War years. Hidden in a former girls’ school in the late 1940s, Venona Project cryptanalysts, linguists, and mathematicians attempted to decode thousands of intercepted Soviet intelligence telegrams. When they cracked the Soviet code, analysts uncovered information of powerful significance: the first indication of Julius Rosenberg’s espionage efforts; references to the espionage activities of Alger Hiss; proof of Soviet infiltration of the Manhattan Project; evidence that spies had reached the highest levels of the U.S. State and Treasury Departments; indications that more than three hundred Americans had assisted in the Soviet theft of American secrets; and confirmation that the Communist party of the United States was consciously and willingly involved in Soviet espionage against America. Drawing not only on the Venona papers but also on newly opened Russian and U. S. archives, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr provide the most rigorously documented analysis ever written on Soviet espionage in the early Cold War years.

Decoding Clausewitz
Decoding Clausewitz

Author: Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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A pathbreaking critique of the thought of military studies icon Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz and his magnum opus On War that illuminates why and how that work should be viewed as much more mature, coherent, innovative, and complete than suggested by previous accounts.

Russian Views of the International Order
Russian Views of the International Order

Author: Andrew Radin

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 083309727X

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In this report, RAND researchers analyze Russian views of the current international order, identify Russia's core interests, and highlight the underlying choices for U.S. policy going forward.

Russia and the Question of World Order
Russia and the Question of World Order

Author: Elias Götz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1000750507

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Russia and the Question of World Order engages with three sets of questions that cut to the heart of the ongoing debate about Russia’s role in the present world order. Firstly, the book asks what are Russia’s aims and objectives? Is Russia a highly revisionist power bent on overturning established rules and institutions, or is it best understood as a country with limited ambitions? Secondly, contributors ask what factors shape Russia’s views on the global order and its foreign policy choices? And finally, they ask what are the consequences of Russia’s actions for the existing international order? To answer these questions the book brings together scholars who analyse Russia’s world order policies through the lenses of different theoretical approaches, including the English School, E.H. Carr’s classical realism, social constructivism, and a long durée perspective. Examining Russia’s role in the present world order, with a special focus on Moscow’s relations with the US, China, and the EU, Russia and the Question of World Order will be of great interest to scholars of international relations and Russian foreign policy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

Routledge Handbook of Russian Security
Routledge Handbook of Russian Security

Author: Roger E. Kanet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 135118122X

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The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world. The volume identifies key contemporary topics of research and debate and takes into account the changes that have occurred in the study of Russian security strategy since the end of the Cold War. The handbook is organised into five sections: The theory and nature of Russian security policy The domestic and foreign policy nexus Instruments used by Russia in pursuing its security Global and regional aspects of Russian security and foreign policy Case studies of Russian involvement in a series of security conflicts. The book concludes with case studies of the major examples of Russian involvement and operations in a series of security conflicts, including that in Georgia, the intervention in Ukraine and occupation of Crimea, and the ongoing Civil War in Syria. This volume will be of great interest to students of Russian security, strategic studies, foreign policy, European politics, and International Relations in general.

Adventures in Russian Historical Research
Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Author: Samuel H. Baron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1317477731

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American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

Getting Russia Right
Getting Russia Right

Author: Thomas Graham

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1509556907

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As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today? With a practitioner's eye honed during decades of work on Russian affairs, Thomas Graham deftly traces the evolution of opposing ideas of national purpose that created an inherent tension in relations. Getting Russia Right identifies the blind spots that prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response. Distilling the Putin factor to reveal the contours of the Russia challenge facing the United States whenever he departs the scene, Graham lays out a compelling way to deal with it so that the United States can continue to advance its interests in a rapidly changing world.

Putin Confronts the West
Putin Confronts the West

Author: René De La Pedraja

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1476684995

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Russia's surprising return to the world stage since 2000 has aroused the curiosity--if not the fear--of the West. Gradually, the Kremlin went from a policy of deference to foreign powers to acting with independence. The driver of this transformation was President Vladimir Putin, who with skillful caution navigated Russia back into the ranks of global powers. In theaters of conflict such as Georgia, Syria and Ukraine, the Kremlin won significant victories at little cost to consolidate its decisive position. Following a chronological approach from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present, this book draws on new documents to describe how Russia regained its former global prominence. Clear accounts of key decisions and foreign policy events--many presented for the first time--provide important insights into the major confrontations with the West.

U.S. Government & Translated Soviet Reports Declassified & Combined: Economic Trends And Projections For The Soviet Union - 1950s To The 1990s
U.S. Government & Translated Soviet Reports Declassified & Combined: Economic Trends And Projections For The Soviet Union - 1950s To The 1990s

Author: U.S. Government

Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones

Published:

Total Pages: 3770

ISBN-13:

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Over 3,700 total pages .... Just a sample of the CONTENTS: THE SOVIET ECONOMY FROM THE END OF WORLD WAR II TO DATE RESEARCH AID 1950 RUBLE-DOLLAR PRICE RATIOS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES IN THE USSR AND THE U.S. TRENDS IN THE SOVIET ECONOMY 1950-1963 THE SOVIET ECONOMY IN 1956-1957 AND PLANS FOR 1958-1962 SOVIET ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN PERIOD 1959-1965 SOVIET MANPOWER PROSPECTS FOR THE 1970S THE SOVIET ECONOMY IN 1972 AND 1973 THE SOVIET ECONOMY 1974 RESULTS AND 1975 PROSPECTS THE SOVIET ECONOMY- PERFORMANCE IN 1975 AND PROSPECTS FOR 1976 THE SOVIET ECONOMY IN 1976-77 AND OUTLOOK FOR 1978 THE SOVIET ECONOMY IN 1978-79 AND PROSPECTS FOR 1980 THE SOVIET ECONOMY IN 1983 AND THE OUTLOOK FOR 1984 SSCI BRIEFING ON PROSPECTIVE SOVIET ECONOMIC TRENDS, 24 NOVEMBER 1987 THE IMPACT OF GORBACHEV'S POLICIES ON SOVIET ECONOMIC STATISTICS SOVIET ENERGY PROSPECTS INTO THE 1990'S THE VICTORIOUS STRIDES OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY AND THE MISERABLE ATTEMPTS OF THE UNSCRUPULOUS EXPERTS THE STATE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY AND THE ROLE OF EAST-WEST TRADE THE IMPACT OF GORBACHEV'S POLICIES ON SOVIET ECONOMIC STATISTICS THE ECONOMY OF THE SOVIET BLOC A BRIEF GUIDE THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOVIET SOCIETY- PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS USSR- THE ROLE OF FOREIGN TRADE IN THE ECONOMY USSR- IMPACT OF CREDIT RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN TRADE AND THE ECONOMY SURVEY OF THE ECONOMIES OF THE SINO-SOVIET BLOC SOVIET WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY SOVIET COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY- LITTLE PROSPECT FOR CATCHING UP PROSPECTS FOR SOVIET OIL IN THE 1980S MAIN FUNCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS SERVING THE ECONOMY OF THE USSR MODELLING THE SOVIET ECONOMY- SOVSIM AT FIVE MODELING THE SOVIET ECONOMY- SOVSIM AFTER SIX YEARS SOVIET STATISTICAL FALSIFICATION AT THE ENTERPRISE LEVEL THE IMPACT ON CIA MEASURES OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY JPRS ID- 10465 USSR REPORT TRANSPORTATION JPRS ID- 9397 TRANSLATION USSR ECONOMY IN 1978- STATISTICAL YEARBOOK. JPRS ID- 9318 USSR REPORT AGRICULTURE JPRS ID- 9143 USSR REPORT CYBERNETICS, COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY JPRS ID- 8984 USSR REPORT HUMAN RESOURCES JPRS ID- 10371 USSR REPORT ECONOMIC AFFAIRS JPRS ID- 10083 USSR REPORT CONSUMER GOODS AND DOMESTIC TRADE

Russia and the World in the Putin Era
Russia and the World in the Putin Era

Author: Roger E. Kanet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1000451259

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This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin’s rule. When the Soviet Union disintegrated after the Cold War, Russia seemingly embarked on the establishment of a democratic political system and seemed intent on joining the liberal international order. However, under President Putin’s rule, there have been dramatic shifts in Russian domestic and foreign policies, in order to re-establish itself as a great power. This book examines broad aspects of Russian political culture and threat perception, such as Russia’s reaction to NATO expansion; its information warfare and energy policies; and its policy towards the Global South, especially the Middle East and Africa. The objective of the analyses is to explain the factors that influence Russian foreign policy, and to show how and why Russian relations with the European Union and the United States have deteriorated so rapidly in recent years. The volume introduces an alternative approach to the standard realist perspective, which often underlies existing analyses of Russian policy – namely, the work offers a theoretical perspective that focuses on the Russian sense of identity and on ontological security. This book will be of much interest to students of Russian foreign policy, security studies, and International Relations.