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An examination of the early manifestations of the State Security Committee (KGB)’s penetration of postcommunist Russian politics follows its self-reforms and collective practices during perestroika. A formerly classified KGB journal demonstrates that the KGB stayed ahead of the tide of  demokratizatsiya , and managed to institutionalize its influence in the newly minted Soviet legislative bodies by encouraging security officers to run for office and co-opt people’s deputies. A purported parliamentary oversight for the security services was undermined from the start. The findings vindicate the KGB’s institutional survival, sensitizing scholars to the behaviors of the secret police, which largely remains an omitted variable in the discussions on failed democratic transition.

Perestroika of the KGB: Chekists Penetrate Politics