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UNINA9910778093603321 |
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Autore |
Gregory Paul R |
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Titolo |
Terror by quota [[electronic resource] ] : state security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) / / Paul R. Gregory |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-300-15278-7 |
9786612353376 |
1-282-35337-3 |
1-282-08962-5 |
9786612089626 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 346 p.) ) : ill |
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Collana |
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The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Internal security - Soviet Union - History |
Political persecution - Soviet Union - History |
Soviet Union Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Stalin's Praetorians -- Ranks of the Chekist elite -- Organizing state security -- Political enemies -- Deadly Kremlin politics -- Planning terror -- Simplified methods -- The repressors' dilemma -- Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citizens? Why did repression come in waves or cycles? Why were economic and petty crimes regarded as political crimes? What was the reason for relying on extra-judicial tribunals? And what motivated the extreme harshness of punishments, including the widespread use of the death penalty? Through an approach that synthesizes history and economics, Paul Gregory develops systematic explanations for the way terror was applied, how terror agents were recruited, how they carried out their jobs, and how they were motivated. The book draws on extensive, recently opened |
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