Blog Post Idea: The Ghost in the Archive — Why the Mitrokhin Files Matter in 2021
For decades, the history of the Cold War was written largely from the Western perspective, as Soviet archives remained sealed behind the Iron Curtain. This paradigm shifted dramatically in 1992 when Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin, a former senior archivist of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, defected to the United Kingdom. He brought with him a treasure trove of handwritten notes taken secretly over twelve years from the KGB’s foreign intelligence files. mitrokhin archive pdf 2021
As of 2021 and beyond, interest in the archive has remained high due to renewed tensions between Russia and the West. While many unauthorized PDFs might appear in search results, the most comprehensive and verified information is found in the published books by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. Blog Post Idea: The Ghost in the Archive