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.
Author(s): David R. Shearer; Vladimir Khaustov
Series: Annals of Communism
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Contents
Preface
Note on Translation, Document Presentation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Frequently Used Terms
INTRODUCTION: Stalin and the Lubianka
CHAPTER 1. Expanding Power, Infiltrating the State, 1922–1927
CHAPTER 2. Threats from Abroad, Infiltrating the Economy, 1927–1930
CHAPTER 3. Subduing the Countryside, 1928–1933
CHAPTER 4. Ordering Society, 1933–1937
CHAPTER 5. The Great Purges, 1935–1939
CHAPTER 6. Social and Ethnic Cleansing: The Mass Operations, 1937–1938
CHAPTER 7. The Security Organs at War, 1939–1944
CHAPTER 8. Border Wars, Plots, and Spy Mania, 1945–1953
Conclusion
Biographical Sketches
List of Documents
Notes
Index
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