num_pages: 401
description: Chronicling the KGB's growth in strength and influence despite its official dissolution, a journalist for Newsweek in Moscow notes its control over the changes in Soviet society, its infiltration into daily Russian life, and its transformation into a state power.
language: English
title: The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future
titlecomplete: The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Espionage, Russia, History
ratings_count: 53
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux