Synopses & Reviews
"Why is a book about SMERSH relevant today? As Mr. Birstein takes pains to point out, 'the present Russian government seems intent on whitewashing Stalin's atrocities and the history of the Soviet security services.'"The Washington Times
SMERSH is primarily known to readers in English as James Bond's sinister opponent. Yet SMERSH was a real organization and was just as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. Based on Russian documents and memoirs, a critical missing piece of the history of World War II and the Soviet secret services is finally exposed to the light of day.
Vadim J. Birstein, PhD, is a historian, activist, and molecular geneticist. He lives in New York.
Synopsis
An authoritative and much-needed study of the Soviet Union's feared SMERSH counterintelligence agency, written With access to Soviet archives.
About the Author
Dr Vadim J. Birstein, a Russian-American who arrived in the United States in 1991, is a historian and molecular geneticist. Born in Moscow and educated at Moscow State University, he received his Doctor of Science in 1987. Until the end of 1998 he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of over 150 scientific papers and three scientific books and is one of the worlds greatest authorities on the endangered sturgeon. His well-received history The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science was published in 2001 by The Westview Press.