Oriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB "special operations" in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s.

Concentrating on the period of the Cold War after Stalin and combining the counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, with the official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine, this book offers an experimental view of the political and cultural history of relations between Soviet Ukraine and "capitalist America" through the prism of KGB operations against the US and Canada. Written from a "hidden" perspective of KGB operations from 1953 to the end of the 1980s, this book covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations and the active measures of the KGB, but also various problems of anti-American cultural campaigns in Soviet Ukraine, sponsored by the KGB, involving the issues of cultural consumption, knowledge production, youth culture and national identity.

Using carefully researched archive materials, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of KGB operations, the Cold War, counterintelligence and political and cultural history of the relations between Soviet Ukraine and the United States and Canada, and a role of cultural consumption in this history.

Sergei I. Zhuk is Professor of History at Ball State University, USA. Since 1997 he has taught American colonial history, Russian/Soviet and Ukrainian History at Ball State University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. His research interests are international relations, knowledge production, cultural consumption, religion, popular culture and identity in a history of imperial Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union.

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 after WWII

Chapter 1: Legacy of the World War II: Ukrainian Nationalists in Diaspora and the Spy Schools in West Germany

Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Early Cold War: Re-Immigrants, the KGB Double Agents and "Zionist Jews"

Chapter 3: Communists and the Political Left in Capitalist America: A Case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky

Chapter 4: Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges

Part II: The KGB vs. Politicians and Tourists from "Capitalist America"

Chapter 5: "Shpionomania," or the American Spies Hysteria in Soviet Ukraine

Chapter 6: The US Exhibitions and Technological/Industrial Espionage

Chapter 7: "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

Chapter 8: KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine

Chapter 9: "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

Selected Bibliography