Protection of military secrets against espionage at the beginning of the cold war

The article deals with the problem of protecting military secrets in 1946, amid the Cold War and the post-war reform of state security bodies. The aims of the article are to identify a new specific composition of classified military information, as well as to review and analyze the measures carried out by the state, represented by Glavlit and the Commissioner for the Protection of Military and State Secrets in the Press under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, to protect military secrets during the studied period. The conclusions made by the author confirm the facts of the adequate response of the state, represented by its competent bodies, to new challenges, both political and military, and to the changing composition and content of secret information requiring protection in the military field. Obtained materials help to trace the transformation of information items classified as military secrets, and to identify the activities of the Soviet censorship apparatus and state security bodies aimed at protecting military secrets at the beginning of the Cold War.