The Secret Police And The Soviet System
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The Secret Police And The Soviet System
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Author : Michael David-Fox
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2023-10-24
The Secret Police And The Soviet System written by Michael David-Fox and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine after 2015, has allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways not previously possible. Moving beyond well-known cases of high-profile espionage and repression, this study is the first to showcase research from a wide range of secret police archives in former Soviet republics and the countries of the former Soviet bloc—some of which are rapidly closing or becoming inaccessible once again. Rather than focusing on Soviet leadership, The Secret Police and the Soviet System integrates the secret police into studies of information, technology, economics, art, and ideology. The result is a state-of-the-art portrait of one of the world’s most notorious institutions, the legacies of which are directly relevant for understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia today.
The Soviet Secret Police
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Author : Simon Wolin
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-12
The Soviet Secret Police written by Simon Wolin and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Political Science categories.
The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union. Much of the information contained within comes from the personal testimony of Soviet citizens who had experienced various activities of the secret police, and forms a full and objective study of the secret police and its role in the Soviet system.
The Secret History Of Soviet Russia S Police State
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Author : Martyn Whittock
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-07-23
The Secret History Of Soviet Russia S Police State written by Martyn Whittock and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-23 with History categories.
'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today' Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A Short History of Russia Repression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies assisted in the establishment of the Soviet state, and helped maintain it in power, but could not, in the end, prevent its collapse. Citizens of the West have, for the most part, been told a very simplified story of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that was the USSR. In fact, it was sustained by more than just policing and force. No amount of revisionist history can erase the reality of millions controlled, imprisoned and killed, but there was much more to the USSR's one-party state than this. Whittock tells a more complex story of the combination of cruelty, co-operation and compromise required to build and run a one-party state. Much of this is the story of the role played by the secret police in creating and sustaining such a form of government, but it is much more than simply a 'history of the secret police'. This is because the 'police state' which emerged (in which dissent, both real and imaginary, was undoubtedly policed, threatened and ruthlessly eliminated) was more than just the product of the arrests, interrogations, executions and imprisonments carried out by the secret police. The USSR was also made possible by a battle for hearts and minds which led millions of people to feel that they really had benefited from the system and had a stake in the new society.
The Russian Secret Police
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Author : Ronald Hingley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Russian Secret Police written by Ronald Hingley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with History categories.
Knowledge And Power
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Author : Niels Erik Rosenfeldt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Knowledge And Power written by Niels Erik Rosenfeldt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Russia categories.
Policing Soviet Society
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Author : Louise Shelley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-02
Policing Soviet Society written by Louise Shelley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-02 with Political Science categories.
The first book to look in depth at the Soviet militia. A crucial aid to understanding the authoritarianism of the communist system and its legacy for Russia and the successor states.
The Kgb
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Author : Amy W. Knight
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-26
The Kgb written by Amy W. Knight and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
This book, first published in 1990, examines the origins and evolution of the security police, considering the continuities as well as changes in its function as guardian of the regime’s security. It analyses the KGB’s involvement in Kremlin politics, the structure and organisation of the KGB, its formal tasks and legal prerogatives as set forth by the Party leadership, and the actual functions it performs on behalf of the Soviet regime. Underlying this analysis is an attempt to assess the power and authority of the KGB relative to other political institutions and to explain the crucial dynamics of the Party- KGB relationship.
Agents Of Terror
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Author : A. I︠U︡ Vatlin
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Agents Of Terror written by A. I︠U︡ Vatlin and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with History categories.
During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"—even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
Terror And Communist Politics
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Author : Jonathan R Adelman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-09
Terror And Communist Politics written by Jonathan R Adelman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-09 with History categories.
From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature on the subject and presents new studies of secret-police forces and the political use of terror in the USSR, China, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Cambodia. The focus of each country study is the nature and extent of internal terror and repression, the range of external intelligence functions, and the effect of secret-police interference in internal policymaking processes. The book ably fills a void in the literature by providing needed case studies as well as a theoretical framework for understanding secret-police activity.
Stalin S Secret Police
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Author : Rupert Butler
language : en
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Stalin S Secret Police written by Rupert Butler and has been published by Amber Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with History categories.
Illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs and expertly written, Stalin’s Secret Police is a chilling history of the Soviet secret police from 1917 to the fall of Communism.