Chomsky on Anarchism or Sword and the Shield

Chomsky on Anarchism

Author: Noam Chomsky

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of-among other things-capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future.

Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. This collection of Chomsky's essays and inter-views includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his lifelong involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization and his hopes for a future world without rulers.

For anyone who's been touched by Chomsky's trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, Chomsky on Anarchism will be one of this season's most exciting and surprising reads.

Noam Chomsky is one of the world's leading intellectuals, the father of modern linguistics, an outspoken media and foreign policy critic and tireless activist. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

Author: Christopher Andrew

The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB’s secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main target, of course, was the United States.Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century.Among the topics and revelations explored are: The KGB’s covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB’s attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB’s use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., inthe 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB’s attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations. KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president. KGB spies who successfully posed as U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society.

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Mitrokhin worked for the foreign intelligence archive of the Soviet spy agency. In 1972 he was charged with moving the top-secret records to a new headquarters, and took the opportunity to make notes and transcripts and hide them under his dacha floor. In 1992 British intelligence spirited him to the west, where he now spills the beans with the help of Andrew (modern and contemporary history, Cambridge U.). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Abbreviations and Acronyms
	The Evolution of the KGB, 1917-1991
	The Transliteration of Russian Names
	Foreword
1	The Mitrokhin Archive	1
2	From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU	23
3	The Great Illegals	42
4	The Magnificent Five	56
5	Terror	68
6	War	89
7	The Grand Alliance	104
8	Victory	122
9	From War to Cold War	137
10	The Main Adversary - Part 1: North American Illegals in the 1950's	162
11	The Main Adversary - Part 2: Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Early Cold War	176
12	The Main Adversary - Part 3: Illegals after "Abel"	190
13	The Main Adversary - Part 4: Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Later Cold War	203
14	Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary	224
15	PROGRESS Operations - Part 1: Crushing the Prague Spring	247
16	PROGRESS Operations - Part 2: Spying on the Soviet Bloc	262
17	The KGB and Western Communist Parties	276
18	Eurocommunism	294
19	Ideological Subversion - Part 1: The War Against the Dissidents	307
20	Ideological Subversion - Part 2: The Victory of the Dissidents	322
21	SIGINT in the Cold War	337
22	Special Tasks - Part 1: From Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev	356
23	Special Tasks - Part 2: The Andropov Era and Beyond	374
24	Cold War Operations Against Britain - Part 1: After the "Magnificent Five"	397
25	Cold War Operations Against Britain - Part 2: After Operation FOOT	417
26	The Federal Republic of Germany	437
27	France and Italy during the Cold War: Agent Penetration and Active Measures	460
28	The Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches	486
29	The Polish Pope and the Rise of Solidarity	508
30	The Polish Crisis and the Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc	517
31	Conclusion: From the One-Party State to the Yeltsin Presidency	544
App. A	KGB Chairmen, 1917-26	566
App. B	Heads of Foreign Intelligence, 1920-99	567
App. C	The Organization of the KGB	568
App. D	The Organization of the KGB First Chief Directorate	569
App. E	The Organization of a KGB Residency	570
	Notes	571
	Bibliography	669
	Index	683