Operation JESUITS: A Microhistory of Soviet State Security in Post-WWII Lithuania
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Cold War International History Project
CWIHP Working Paper 101
Operation JESUITS: A Microhistory of Soviet State Security in Post-WWII Lithuania
Filip Kovacevic
March 2025
Based on archival research in the Soviet state security documents from the Lithuanian Special Archives, housed in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Filip Kovacevic chronicles a previously unpublicized operation by the Soviet Lithuanian state security service targeting a Jesuit priest in Berlin and his contacts in Lithuania between 1945 and 1954. Using a microhistorical approach, Kovacevic provides insights into how Soviet state security functioned in the immediate post-WWII period and the first decade of the Cold War.
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