What is it about?
Using various case studies – from Oleg Kalugin to Grigorii Sevostianov and Nikolai Sivachev in Russia, and Askold Shlepakov in Ukraine, this article examines different instrumental functions of the KGB people among Soviet Americanists, specialists in the US history, politics, literature and films. It focuses on the KGB influences in the field of American studies in the Soviet Union since the beginning of Soviet-US academic exchanges programs in 1958 till the beginning of perestroika. This article is a part of the larger project about cultural and social history of Soviet Americanists during the Cold War.
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This material reveals dependence of American Studies in the USSR on the KGB and other Soviet intelligence agencies. such as GRU.
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This material part of my research on a social and cultural history of American Studies in the USSR.
Dr. Sergei I. Zhuk
Ball State University
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This page is a summary of: The “kgb People,” Soviet Americanists and Soviet-American Academic Exchanges, 1958–1985, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, March 2017, Brill Deutschland GmbH,
DOI: 10.1163/18763324-1201001.
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