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Security empire : the secret police in communist Eastern Europe / Molly Pucci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pucci, Molly (Molly Marie), author.
- Series:
- Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes
- The Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--Europe, Eastern--History.
- Intelligence service.
- History.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Eastern Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Postwar as Revolution: East Europe after the Second World War
- 1. The Rule of Chaos: The Polish Secret Police and the Aftermath of the Second World War
- 2. The Czechoslovak Road to the Secret Police
- 3. Secret Police Networks in the Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany
- Part II. The Trial of the Hungarian Communist László Rajk, Transnational Stalinism, and the Creation of the Eastern Bloc
- 4. Conquering the Secret Police in Poland
- 5. A Revolution in a Revolution in Czechoslovakia
- 6. Building the Stasi in the German Democratic Republic
- 7. The Secret Police: History and Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300242573
- 9780300242577
- OCLC:
- 1121602447
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