03664nam 22007454a 450 991045536040332120200520144314.00-300-15278-797866123533761-282-35337-31-282-08962-5978661208962610.12987/9780300152784(CKB)1000000000764823(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168150(SSID)ssj0000257275(PQKBManifestationID)11186365(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257275(PQKBWorkID)10253726(PQKB)10479511(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157987(MiAaPQ)EBC3420538(DE-B1597)485389(OCoLC)666930818(DE-B1597)9780300152784(MiAaPQ)EBC5292521(Au-PeEL)EBL3420538(CaPaEBR)ebr10348433(CaONFJC)MIL235337(OCoLC)923594332(Au-PeEL)EBL5292521(CaONFJC)MIL208962(OCoLC)1027178749(EXLCZ)99100000000076482320080603d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrTerror by quota[electronic resource] state security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) /Paul R. GregoryNew Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 346 p.) ) illThe Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."0-300-13425-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Stalin's Praetorians -- Ranks of the Chekist elite -- Organizing state security -- Political enemies -- Deadly Kremlin politics -- Planning terror -- Simplified methods -- The repressors' dilemma -- Conclusions.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 archives of the Gulag administration, the Politburo, and state security agencies themselves to illuminate in new ways terror and repression in the Soviet Union as well as dictatorships in other times and places.Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.Internal securitySoviet UnionHistoryPolitical persecutionSoviet UnionHistorySoviet UnionPolitics and governmentElectronic books.Internal securityHistory.Political persecutionHistory.366.28/30947Gregory Paul R119311MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455360403321Terror by quota767578UNINA