Terror by quota : state security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) / / Paul R. Gregory
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| Autore: |
Gregory Paul R
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| Titolo: |
Terror by quota : state security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) / / Paul R. Gregory
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 346 p.) ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 366.28/30947 |
| Soggetto topico: | Internal security - Soviet Union - History |
| Political persecution - Soviet Union - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Soviet Union Politics and government |
| Note generali: | "Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University." |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Stalin's Praetorians -- Ranks of the Chekist elite -- Organizing state security -- Political enemies -- Deadly Kremlin politics -- Planning terror -- Simplified methods -- The repressors' dilemma -- Conclusions. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Terror by quota |
| ISBN: | 9786612353376 |
| 9786612089626 | |
| 9780300152784 | |
| 0300152787 | |
| 9781282353374 | |
| 1282353373 | |
| 9781282089624 | |
| 1282089625 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910959682703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.