Special Courses in Higher Education System of Russian Intelligence

This database consists of data extracted from sources analyzed within the scope of the authors' research project titled "Russian School of Intelligence Theory". The dataset contains data related to the research subject, specifically concerning the courses taught at the KGB Higher School and the Andropov Institute (including course names, contents, and related details).

The data were compiled by manually scanning and identifying references to these courses or information related to them within the main texts and footnotes of the primary sources listed below. Publications or data not directly relevant to the research topic were excluded.

Each entry in the dataset includes descriptive fields such as course information (course name, etc.), the relevant institution, and year.

Primary Data Sources:

Issues 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28-29, 30, 31, 36, 37-38, 39, 41-42, 43, 44, 45 of the journal "Труды Высшей Школы" (Trudy Vysshey Shkoly), publicly available in the Lithuanian Special Archives (Lietuvos ypatingasis archyvas).

Training materials publicly available in the Lithuanian Special Archives: “Английская Разведка” (British Intelligence), “Разведка Федеративной Республики Германии” (Intelligence of the Federal Republic of Germany), “Разведка США” (US Intelligence), “Литовские, латышские и эстонские буржуазные националисты” (Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Bourgeois Nationalists), “Беларусские буржуазные националисты” (Belarusian Bourgeois Nationalists), and “Украинские буржуазные националисты” (Ukrainian Bourgeois Nationalists).

29 lecture materials published by the "For Free Russia Foundation".