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Author : Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ
Publisher : London (England) : Harper & Brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Methods of the OGPU written by Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ and published by London (England) : Harper & Brothers. This book was released on 1931 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Kitchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Prisoner of the OGPU written by George Kitchin and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoner of the OGPU, first published in 1935, is a firsthand account of the author's 4 years in the Soviet gulag (1928-32) at the hands of the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time, later renamed the NKVD, MGB, and KGB). At the time of his arrest, George Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was charged with violating an obscure regulation, held in prison, and then sent to a labor camp located in northern Russia where he describes the brutalities he endured and witnessed. The book also offers excellent insights into the running of the camps as Kitchin was able to work in the camp's administration offices (in addition to sometimes being sent to work on the timber-cutting and road-building labor crews). The OGPU was one of several in a succession of state security agencies created by the Soviets. the first group was the Cheka, created by Vladimir Lenin on December 20, 1917. The main task of the Cheka was to combat counter-revolutionary activity, which included arresting, torturing, and executing thousands. Soldiers belonging to the Cheka were tasked with: policing labor camps, running the Gulag system, subjecting political opponents to arrests, detention, torture and execution, and subduing rebellions or riots by the workers or peasants. The Cheka was followed by the GPU, the State Political Directorate, in 1922. The GPU was renamed again in 1923 to the OGPU, the United State Political Administration.
Author : David McKnight
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136338128
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War written by David McKnight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes.
Author : Erdogan A
Publisher : Erdogan A
ISBN 13 : 1329473191
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Transcripts from the Soviet Archives Volume XII 1932 written by Erdogan A and published by Erdogan A. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcripts From Soviet Archives, Kremlin Archives, Soviet Village through the eyes of CHEKA - OGPU- NKVD, 1932
Author : Ronald Hingley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000371263
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Russian Secret Police written by Ronald Hingley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.
Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782743510
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Secret Police written by Rupert Butler and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Elena Osokina
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501758527
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Quest for Gold written by Elena Osokina and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods. Initially, only foreigners were allowed to shop in Torgsin, but the acute demand for hard-currency revenues forced Stalin to open Torgsin to Soviet citizens who could exchange tsarist gold coins and objects made of precious metals and gemstones, as well as foreign monies, for foods and goods in its shops. Through her analysis of the large-scale, state-run entrepreneurship represented by Torgsin, Elena Osokina highlights the complexity and contradictions of Stalinism. Driven by the state's hunger for gold and the people's starvation, Torgsin rejected Marxist postulates of the socialist political economy: the notorious class approach and the state hard-currency monopoly. In its pursuit for gold, Torgsin advertised in the capitalist West, encouraging foreigners to purchase goods for their relatives in the USSR; and its seaport shops and restaurants operated semilegally as brothels, inducing foreign sailors to spend hard currency for Soviet industrialization. Examining Torgsin from multiple perspectives—economic expediency, state and police surveillance, consumerism, even interior design and personnel—Stalin's Quest for Gold radically transforms the stereotypical view of the Soviet economy and enriches our understanding of everyday life in Stalin's Russia.
Author : John Edgar Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Protect America! written by John Edgar Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191628867
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Terror written by James Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for historians. However, while for decades, historians were locked in a narrow debate about the degree of central control over the terror process, recent archival research is underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives. Historians have begun to explore the roots of the Terror in the heritage of war and mass repression in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods; in the regime's focus not just on former 'oppositionists', wreckers and saboteurs, but also on crime and social disorder; and in the common European concern to identify and isolate 'undesirable' elements. Recent studies have examined in much greater depth and detail the precipitants and triggers that turned a determination to protect the Revolution into a ferocious mass repression. The Anatomy of Terror is an edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians in the field, presenting not only the latest developments in the subject, but also the latest evolution of the debate. The sixteen chapters are divided into eight themes, with some themes reflecting the diversity of sources, methodologies and angles of approach, others showing stark differences of opinion. This opens up the field of study to further research, and this volume will proof indispensable for historians of political violence and of the era of Stalinist Terror.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Communist Methods of Infiltration (government-labor) written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Pharr
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780321335593
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)
Download or read book GPU Gems 2 written by Matt Pharr and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2005 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More useful techniques, tips, and tricks for harnessing the power of the new generation of powerful GPUs.
Author : Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
ISBN 13 : 185756412X
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War written by Robert Jackson Alexander and published by Janus Publishing Company Lim. This book was released on 1999 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive view of the anarchists' role in Spain from 1936 to 1939, both during the conflict and in their unique social and economic experiments behind the lines. The author examines the part anarchists played in the defence of Madrid, as well as life in the rural and urban collectives.
Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021071X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 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 2014-11-28 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 : O. Velikanova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137030755
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s written by O. Velikanova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of popular opinions in Soviet society in the 1920s. These voices which made the Russian revolution characterize reactions to mobilization politics: patriotic militarizing campaigns, the tenth anniversary of the revolution and state attempts to unite the nation around a new Soviet identity.
Author : Paul Hagenloh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Police written by Paul Hagenloh and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin’s Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Paul Hagenloh argues that the policing methods employed in the late 1930s were the culmination of a set of ideologically driven policies dating back to the previous decade. Hagenloh’s vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin’s peculiar brand of policing—in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order—supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.
Author : Vera Tolz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349258407
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Russian Academicians and the Revolution written by Vera Tolz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the early Soviet period of the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences which focuses on the reactions of individual members of the academy to the new situation in which they found themselves after October 1917. Based on the extensive use of documents from the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author discusses how the academicians justified their cooperation with the Bolsheviks and the ideological basis of the regime's policy towards the academy in the 1920s.
Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465010032
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Sword and the Shield written by Christopher Andrew and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network. Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main target, of course, was the United States. Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century. Among the topics and revelations explored are: The KGB's covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB's attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB's use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB's attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations. KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president. KGB spies who successfully posed as U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society.
