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Author_Walter Bacon
authoritarian regimes
Baader Meinhof Gang
C3 System
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Chinese Communist Party
Civilian Security Service
communist states
comparative analysis of secret police systems
Czechoslovak Communism
Czechoslovakia's Past
Czechoslovakia's Secret Police
Danube Black Sea Canal
Eastern Bloc history
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Ieng Thirith
intelligence agencies
internal security apparatus
internal terror
Khieu Samphan
Military Counter-intelligence
Military Counterintelligence
Phnom Penh
Pol Pot
political repression
Red Orchestra
repression
Secret Police
Secret Police Forces
secret-police activity
Security Police
Slovak Communist Party
state surveillance
Traditional Political Culture
Tuol Sleng
West Germany
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367289874
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 152 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature on the subject and presents new studies of secret-police forces and the political use of terror in the USSR, China, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Cambodia. The focus of each country study is the nature and extent of internal terror and repression, the range of external intelligence functions, and the effect of secret-police interference in internal policymaking processes. The book ably fills a void in the literature by providing needed case studies as well as a theoretical framework for understanding secret-police activity.
Jonathan R. Adelman
