THE LEGACY OF THE SOVIET UNION SECRET SERVICES: FROM THE TSARIST
OCHRANA TO FSB
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Instytut Nauk Politycznych
Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, były minister spraw wewnętrznych, szef UOP,
Agencji Wywiadu
Publication date: 2019-12-21
Studia Politologiczne 2017;43
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Today Soviet Union Secret Services inherits the leading role and the whole
government system from their forerunners of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. Just like the contemporary Russia refers to the Russia-before the
revolution history, the present secret services had adapted to its legacy the
memory of tsarist Ochrana. At the time of political transformation, the secret
services had saved the KGB-staff and operational continuity, in the opposite to
most of the previous Russian organizational authorities. Despite the names, its
nature was changed only a little bit. They got a new way of functioning. They
became one of the most important parts of the new authority scheme. The Russian
secret services are nowadays not only one of the authority tools (as the tsarist
Ochrana or KGB before), but they are also a real and important creator of the
country’s policy. The secret services public officials (before and current), have
definitely become more important by being the new leading class of contemporary
Russia. The siłowniki background creates the close and clannish group of people
from whom the human resources of the financial and country management are
recruited.
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