LEADER 03769nam 22008054a 450 001 9910959682703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612353376 010 $a9786612089626 010 $a9780300152784 010 $a0300152787 010 $a9781282353374 010 $a1282353373 010 $a9781282089624 010 $a1282089625 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300152784 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764823 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168150 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000257275 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186365 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257275 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10253726 035 $a(PQKB)10479511 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420538 035 $a(DE-B1597)485389 035 $a(OCoLC)666930818 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300152784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5292521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348433 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235337 035 $a(OCoLC)923594332 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5292521 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208962 035 $a(OCoLC)1027178749 035 $a(Perlego)1089584 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764823 100 $a20080603d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTerror by quota $estate security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) /$fPaul R. Gregory 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 346 p.) ) $cill 225 1 $aThe Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War 300 $a"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University." 311 08$a9780300134254 311 08$a0300134258 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aStalin's Praetorians -- Ranks of the Chekist elite -- Organizing state security -- Political enemies -- Deadly Kremlin politics -- Planning terror -- Simplified methods -- The repressors' dilemma -- Conclusions. 330 $aThis original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citizens? Why did repression come in waves or cycles? Why were economic and petty crimes regarded as political crimes? What was the reason for relying on extra-judicial tribunals? And what motivated the extreme harshness of punishments, including the widespread use of the death penalty? Through an approach that synthesizes history and economics, Paul Gregory develops systematic explanations for the way terror was applied, how terror agents were recruited, how they carried out their jobs, and how they were motivated. The book draws on extensive, recently opened archives of the Gulag administration, the Politburo, and state security agencies themselves to illuminate in new ways terror and repression in the Soviet Union as well as dictatorships in other times and places. 410 0$aYale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War. 606 $aInternal security$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aPolitical persecution$zSoviet Union$xHistory 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government 615 0$aInternal security$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical persecution$xHistory. 676 $a366.28/30947 700 $aGregory$b Paul R$0119311 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959682703321 996 $aTerror by quota$9767578 997 $aUNINA