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Terror by quota : state security from Lenin to Stalin : an archival study /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gregory, Paul R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Stanford, Calif. : Yale University Press ; Hoover Institution, Stanford University, [2009]
Series:Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
Subjects:
Soviet Union. > Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti > History.
Internal security > Soviet Union > History.
Political persecution > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Politics and government.
Table of 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.