The contributions gathered in this fascinating collection in which scholars from a diverse
range of disciplines share their perspectives on Russian covert activities known as Russian
active measures help readers observe the profound influence of Russian covert action on
foreign states' policies cultures people's mentality and social institutions past and
present. Disinformation forgeries major show trials cooptation of Western academia memory
and cyber wars and changes in national and regional security doctrines of states targeted by
Russia constitute an incomplete list of topics discussed in this volume. Most importantly
through a nexus of perspectives and through the prism of new documents discovered in the former
KGB archives the texts highlight the enormous scale and the legacies of Soviet Russian covert
action. Because of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its on-going war in Ukraine's
Donbas Ukraine lately gained international recognition as the epicenter of Russian
disinformation campaigns invigorating popular and scholarly interest in conventional and
non-conventional warfare. The studies included in this collection illuminate the objectives and
implications of Russia's attempts to ideologically subvert Ukraine as well as other nations.
Examining them through historical lenses reveals a cultural clash between Russia and the West
in general.
