TY - BOOK AU - McKnight,David TI - Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage SN - 9781138011120 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Taylor & Francis Ltd KW - Ost-West-Konflikt KW - Spionage KW - Vorgeschichte N1 - 1 The Roots of Conspiracy 2 The Communist International and Clandestine Methods: the Conspiratorial Impulse 3 Comintern's Underground in Western Military Forces 4 Underground in Asia 5 The 1930s: from the Underground to Espionage 6 A Trojan Horse within Social Democracy 7 Fighting Fascism through Espionage N2 - From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes ER -