In Gunsight of the KGB

by Alexander Ushakov and Alexander A. Ushakov

An account of a Soviet defector's escape from his country describes how Ushakov, under investigation for anti-Soviet writing, was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled to the West. Reprint. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425133389
• ISBN13: 9780425133385
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Escape across the USSR-Turkish border.

Ushakov was a political theorist in the Soviet Navy and he came under suspicion of writing anti Soviet literature. His ex-wife betrayed him to the Soviet KGB. Once discovered, Ushakov vowed to escape the Soviet Union. He drew up plans to cross into Turkey and devised a timetable to hike through the mountains. This is the exciting part of the book, since he risked both discovery and/or death from the natural elements. This encompassed the first 120 pages. The rest of the book was a discourse in how communism was evil, and anger at his ex-wife. This part of the book is heavy plodding since he goes into philisophy. If anything, read the escape portion of this book. The rest of the book is moralizing about why he defected. He does predict the downfall of the Soviet state and this book was published in 1989. The first 120 pages is a nice read.