KGB and power

A quarter of a century ago, the former head of the fifth department (the fight against the ideological diversions of the enemy and the protection of the constitutional system) of the KGB of the USSR, Philip Bobkov published the book “KGB and Power”, where the difficulty and frankly described the complexity of the KGB and the Central Committee of the CPSU, including and political investigation. The reader for the first time got acquainted with the features of the party leadership of the state security bodies in the "Andropov period". The book immediately became a bestseller. Which is not surprising. After all, the author began serving the state security bodies in October 1946 as an assistant to the operative, and completed the first deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR in January 1991. From 1969 to 1983 - Head of the Fifth Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. The new collection publication “KGB and Power” is illustrated by photographs from the author’s personal archive, the majority is published for the first time. They allow you to take a fresh look at what the author was talking about.