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Yevgenia Albats's 1999 book on the KGB traces the security service from its Soviet roots through the Yeltsin years and asks what it would mean for Russia's future. Albats, a Russian journalist who drew on archives and interviews, writes investigative history rather than memoir. It is denser and more journalistic than a general Cold War survey, and it rewards readers who want institutional detail over narrative sweep. The paperback edition dates from 1999, so events after that year are outside its scope.
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Reviewers treat it as a serious, well-sourced account of the KGB's institutional survival. They credit Albats's access and archival work and note that the book is demanding but rewarding. Its main limitation cited is age: it cannot cover the 2000s.