Watching, Listening and Learning: KGB Agentura in Soviet Lithuania

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This article explores the KGB’s use of undercover agents to forestall and investigate dissenting behaviour in the Lithuanian SSR during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing primarily on declassified KGB documents from the Lithuanian Special Archive, it presents new details on the scope, methods, targets and results of agent work as the Soviet regime moved away from the mass repressions of the Stalin years, highlighting both change and continuity, as well as key successes and failings in this sphere.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Hornsby, R.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent
Dates:	Accepted: 6 September 2024 Published (online): 24 April 2025 Published: 24 April 2025
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2025 16:46
Last Modified:	03 Jun 2025 07:44
Published Version:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668...
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Identification Number:	10.1080/09668136.2025.2483937
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224429

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