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Author : Elsa Bernaut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Collective Leadership and the Political Police in the Soviet Union written by Elsa Bernaut and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319769626
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics written by Graeme Gill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts how this played out over the life of the regime. The strategies used by the most prominent leader in each period – Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev – to acquire and retain power are counterposed to the strategies used by the other oligarchs to protect themselves and sustain their positions. This is analyzed against the backdrop of the emergence of norms designed to structure oligarch politics. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the fields of political leadership, Soviet politics and Soviet history.
Author : Amy W. Knight
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000263002
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The KGB written by Amy W. Knight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alexandra Lauren Sukalo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Political Police written by Alexandra Lauren Sukalo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how the Soviet Union's domestic intelligence service, or political police, functioned across its republics from 1918 until Stalin's death in March 1953. It traces the establishment and evolution of the Soviet political police specifically in the Soviet Union's western republics--Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Soviet Moldavia, and Ukraine--as well as Georgia to explain how the political elite in Moscow endeavored to employ the political police to pacify and transform multiple insubordinate populations into loyal Soviet citizens. Both an institutional and social history, this dissertation charts the development of the political police in the Soviet borderlands and the influence this institution exerted on both individual behavior and collective action, while also analyzing the experiences of the ordinary men and women who staffed the republican departments of the political police. This dissertation yields three major conclusions. First, in an effort to combat the image that the Soviets were a neo-colonial force solely bent on subjugating non-Russians, Moscow endeavored to form an intelligence service staffed by loyal, local nationals who would willingly police their own neighbors, friends, and family. Second, while the Communist Party leaders in Moscow sought to create a professional domestic intelligence service in the republics, they continually had to adjust their expectations as they encountered unforeseen challenges posed by local circumstances and their own ideology. Finally, Moscow had less control over the republican political police departments than historians have commonly assumed, and officers in the republics both influenced and shaped the implementation of Soviet policy at the local level. The result is a broader institutional and social history of the Soviet's domestic intelligence service that considers the complex nature of local-level interests and conflicts while providing a more nuanced view of how the political police contributed to the creation of the Soviet Union.
Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349202622
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Political Leadership in the Soviet Union written by Archie Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central leadership of the Soviet political system in Moscow is analyzed by a group of Western political researchers. The text covers the entire Soviet period from 1917 to the present day, but special emphasis is placed on the post-Stalin years and new developments of the 1980s.
Author : Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300110661
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Master of the House written by Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia’s political hierarchy of the 1930s--the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party--and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin’s rise. Khlevniuk’s unparalleled research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers many new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov’s murder, the implementation of the Great Terror, and much more. The author analyzes Stalin’s mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding, unmatched in texture and depth, of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history.
Author : Alexander Vatlin
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299310809
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Agents of Terror written by Alexander Vatlin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Michael David-Fox
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990180
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Secret Police and the Soviet System written by Michael David-Fox and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300171897
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Stalin and the Lubianka written by David R. Shearer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
Author : Louise Shelley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134847467
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Policing Soviet Society written by Louise Shelley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Boris Meissner
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Communist Party of the Soviet Union written by Boris Meissner and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Northrup Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Government of the Soviet Union written by Samuel Northrup Harper and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vinayank N. Srivastava
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042977253X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Separation of the Party and the State written by Vinayank N. Srivastava and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume is the first full length study of one of the most important political institutions of the erstwhile Soviet political system – the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The originality of this work lies in its main argument that the central reform during Perestroika was that of the Party and the State – a reform which ultimately resulted in the CPSU and its institutions, the Central Committee being one of the most vital among them – firstly, surrendering the monopoly over political power and control over the instrumentalities of the State and secondly, systematically de-institutionalising and dismantling the formidable Soviet political system. The seeds of transformation and the shape of politico-economic and socio-cultural systems that emerged in successor States were laid down during the Soviet era – in particular during Perestroika itself. The continuity is, therefore, as striking as the change – if not more so.
Author : Martyn Whittock
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 147214239X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State written by Martyn Whittock and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016128X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Master of the House written by Oleg V. Khlevniuk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia's political hierarchy of the 1930s--the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party--and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin's rise. Khlevniuk's unparalleled research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers many new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov's murder, the implementation of the Great Terror, and much more. The author analyzes Stalin's mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding, unmatched in texture and depth, of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history.
Author : Stanley Rothman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Soviet Politics and Society written by Stanley Rothman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
