Coup d'état in KGB Style?: The Role of the KGB in the Overthrow of Khrushchev and in the First Years of the Constitution of Brezhnev's Power

• In Event: Sixty Years since the Overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev: Lessons from a Coup in a Soviet-Style Dictatorship

Abstract

This paper analyzes the question of the organizational position of the KGB in relation to the supreme leader of the USSR, the KGB's activities against Khrushchev in 1964, and the tension between the KGB and Khrushchev's successor Brezhnev and the early period of his power.

Author

• Tomas Sniegon, U of Lund (Sweden)