Jeffrey Trimble has been an international journalist, editor and media manager for more than 35 years. He went to Ohio State in 2018 as Lecturer in the School of Communication and the Department of Political Science.
Spreading the Word: The KGB’s Image-Building Under Gorbachev
January 1, 1997
A paper by Jeff Trimble, fall 1991 fellow, analyzes how the Russian KGB dramatically transformed its image over time. The KGB, under different sets of initials, evoked frightening memories of the Soviet period of Russian history. Millions were herded into the communist version of concentration camps, transported to Siberia, or executed for having the wrong
