Soviet special services and the Red Army. 1917-1921

For the first time, using a number of previously unknown documents, a comprehensive study of the formation and development of Soviet military intelligence and military counterintelligence during the Civil War was carried out, the organization and activities of the first Soviet military intelligence, counterintelligence and censorship - the operational department of the People"s Commissariat, the history of intelligence and military courses were analyzed for the first time. Controls that have become the first body for the training of special services in Russia, the "case of espionage" of one of the founding fathers of GRU George Theodori. The pages of the book are considered: the origin of Soviet special services and the preparation of a new generation of their employees, the formation and development of Soviet military intelligence and military counterintelligence bodies. The main attention is paid to the evolution of the organizational structure and personnel of the special services