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Author_David R. Shearer
Author_Vladimir Khaustov
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Product details
- ISBN 9780300171891
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
Vladimir Khaustov, a professor at the Federal Security Service Academy of Russia, is a recognized authority in the history of organs of state security. David Shearer specializes in Soviet and twentieth-century European history and is the author of Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953.
