Overview

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 -- Legacy of the World War II : Ukrainian nationalists in diaspora and the spy schools in West Germany -- The legacy of the early Cold War : re-Immigrants, the KGB double agents and "Zionist Jews" -- Communists and the political left in capitalist America : a case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky -- Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian diaspora in America, and academic exchanges -- Part II: The KGB vs. politicians and tourists from "capitalist America" -- "Shpionomania," or the American spies hysteria in Soviet Ukraine -- The US exhibitions and technological/industrial espionage -- "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 -- KGB special operations, cultural consumption and the youth culture in Soviet Ukraine -- "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.