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Terror by quota : state security from Lenin to Stalin : an archival study / Paul R. Gregory.
LIBRA JN6529.I6 .G73 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gregory, Paul R.
- Series:
- Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
- The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--History.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.
- Internal security--Soviet Union--History.
- Internal security.
- History.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union--History.
- Political persecution.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University, [2009]
- Contents:
- Stalin's Praetorians
- Ranks of the Chekist elite
- Organizing state security
- Political enemies
- Deadly Kremlin politics
- Planning terror
- Simplified methods
- The repressors' dilemma
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300134254
- 0300134258
- OCLC:
- 223871638
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