Heroes and traitors. White emigration in Finland: War of intelligence. Ioffe E.

The new book of Eleanor Ioffe “Heroes and Traitors. White emigration in Finland: The War of Intelligence ”tells about the fate of former Russian officers who left their homeland and involved in the struggle against Soviet Russia. This is a story about the relationship between the Soviet Union and Finland for decades, when the country of Suomi turned out to be a bridgehead of the active activity of the opposing forces: Russian military emigration and intelligence of Western countries on the one hand and Soviet counterintelligence - on the other.

This is new data about The bloody completion of the Operation Trust and young Russian emigrants-terrorists who are ready to give their lives for the “white idea”, not suspecting that their actions were guided by counterintelligence from Lubyanka. The narrative is built on previously unknown archival documents - diaries, correspondence, interrogations and police reports. Eleanor Ioffe will be in demand by everyone who is interested in the life and activities of Russian emigration, as well as the activities of Western and Soviet intelligence. A lot of new ones will find in it the local historians of the Karelian Isthmus.

, not only the historians will call in the Hoover Archive (USA) and first published in the application to the book of the letter Kirill Pushkarev 1930-1939 Baroness Maria Dmitrievna Wrangel, mother leader of the white movement of General Peter Nikolaevich Wrangel. They contain valuable, we can say sensational from the point of view of the history of Russian emigration in Finland, but practically unknown information that will be first introduced into scientific circulation.