Stalin S Police

Author : Paul Hagenloh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078796904

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Stalin's Police by Paul Hagenloh Pdf

Stalin’s Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Paul Hagenloh argues that the policing methods employed in the late 1930s were the culmination of a set of ideologically driven policies dating back to the previous decade. Hagenloh’s vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin’s peculiar brand of policing—in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order—supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012892199

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Inside Stalin's Secret Police by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : A. I︠U︡ Vatlin,Alexander Vatlin
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299310806

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Agents of Terror by A. I︠U︡ Vatlin,Alexander Vatlin Pdf

During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"—even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782743514

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Stalin's Secret Police by Rupert Butler Pdf

Illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs and expertly written, Stalin’s Secret Police is a chilling history of the Soviet secret police from 1917 to the fall of Communism.

Author : David R. Shearer,Vladimir Khaustov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300171891

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Stalin and the Lubianka by David R. Shearer,Vladimir Khaustov Pdf

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 : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300156225

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Policing Stalin's Socialism by David R. Shearer Pdf

Policing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Police
ISBN : OCLC:504930111

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Inside Stalin's Secret Police by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : Martyn Whittock
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472142399

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The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State by Martyn Whittock Pdf

'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today' Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A Short History of Russia Repression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies assisted in the establishment of the Soviet state, and helped maintain it in power, but could not, in the end, prevent its collapse. Citizens of the West have, for the most part, been told a very simplified story of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that was the USSR. In fact, it was sustained by more than just policing and force. No amount of revisionist history can erase the reality of millions controlled, imprisoned and killed, but there was much more to the USSR's one-party state than this. Whittock tells a more complex story of the combination of cruelty, co-operation and compromise required to build and run a one-party state. Much of this is the story of the role played by the secret police in creating and sustaining such a form of government, but it is much more than simply a 'history of the secret police'. This is because the 'police state' which emerged (in which dissent, both real and imaginary, was undoubtedly policed, threatened and ruthlessly eliminated) was more than just the product of the arrests, interrogations, executions and imprisonments carried out by the secret police. The USSR was also made possible by a battle for hearts and minds which led millions of people to feel that they really had benefited from the system and had a stake in the new society.

Author : Roman Brackman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135758400

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The Secret File of Joseph Stalin by Roman Brackman Pdf

This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup caused by the suspicion that the boy was the result of an adulterous affair, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters.

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 134907988X

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Inside Stalin’s Secret Police by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : Walter G. Krivitsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015025265847

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I was Stalin's Agent by Walter G. Krivitsky Pdf

Author : John Arch Getty,Oleg V. Naumov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300092059

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Yezhov by John Arch Getty,Oleg V. Naumov Pdf

The definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov's rise to become the chief of Stalin's secret police--and the dictator's "iron fist"--during the Great Terror Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years, second in power only to Stalin himself. Under Yezhov's orders, millions of arrests, imprisonments, deportations, and executions were carried out. This book, based upon unprecedented access to Communist Party archives and Yezhov's personal archives, looks into the life and career of the enigmatic man who administered Stalin's Great Terror. J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov seek to answer a series of troubling questions. What kind of person calmly and efficiently sends thousands of innocent people to their deaths? What could prepare a man for such a role? How could a person whom acquaintances describe as friendly, pleasant, and even gallant carry out one of history's most horrifying campaigns of terror? The authors uncover the full details of Yezhov's rise to power and conclude that he was not merely Stalin's tool but a skillful maneuverer in his own right. The historical documents provide a thorough portrait of Yezhov and reveal a man of fanatical dedication to his leader and his party--a man who became a willing murderer. Readers will find his story chilling, the more so in our own times, when the impulse to terror that engulfed Yezhov seems neither surprising nor unfamiliar.

Author : Denis Skopin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000547221

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Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia by Denis Skopin Pdf

This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared "public enemies" from group photographs in Stalin’s Russia. The book is based on long-term empirical research in Russian archives and includes 57 photographs that are exceptional in terms of historical interest: all these images bear traces of editing in the form of various marks, such as blacking-out, excisions or scratches. The illustrative materials also include a group of photographs with inscriptions left by officers of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. To approach this extensive visual material, Denis Skopin draws on a wealth of Stalin-era written sources: memoirs, diaries and official documents. He argues that this kind of political iconoclasm cannot be confused with censorship nor vandalism. The practice in question is more harrowing and morally twisted, for in most cases the photos were defaced by those who were part of victim’s intimate circle: his/her colleagues, friends or even close family members. The book will be of interest to scholars working in history of photography, art history, visual culture, Russian studies and Russian history and politics.

Author : Louise Shelley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134847457

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Policing Soviet Society by Louise Shelley Pdf

Since its creation immediately after the Russian revolution,the militia has had a broad range of social,political and economic functions necessary to direct and control a highly centralized socialist state.However,as the communst party lost its legitimacy the militia was increasingly thrust into the front line of political conflict.A task it was unsuited to perform.Despite the efforts of perestroika to reform it,the collapse of the Soviet state also led to the collapse of morale within the militia. Louise Shelley provides a comprehensive view of the history,development,functions,personnel and operations of the militia from its inception until after the demise of the Soviet state.The militia combined elements of continental,socialist and colonial policing.Its functions and operations changed with the development of the state,yet it always intervened significantly in citizen's lives and citizens were very much involved in their own control.Over time the militia became more removed from politics and more concerned with crime control,but it always remained a tool of the party. This is the first book to analyze the militia,which was one of the most vital elements of control within the Soviet State.It will be a crucial aid to understanding the authoritarianism of the communist system and its legacy for Russia and the successor states. Louise I.Shelley is Professor at the Department of Justice,Law and Society and the School of International Service at the American University,Washington D.C.

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190674168

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Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial by Lynne Viola Pdf

The Great Terror (1937-38) in the Soviet Union occupies a central role in the history of twentieth-century mass violence. During a sixteen-month period, the Stalin regime arrested over 1.5 million people, mostly on trumped-up charges of "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity, of whom about half were summarily executed and the rest were sent to the Gulag. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims, we know almost nothing about the perpetrators. One explanation for this lacuna is that there were no public trials-no equivalent of the postwar prosecution of Nazi war criminals-of Soviet perpetrators. Yet there were secret trials of NKVD (secret police) officials, the subject of this new book by eminent Soviet historian Lynne Viola. In what has been dubbed "the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand secret police officers were prosecuted by Soviet military courts for violations of Soviet criminal procedure. They were charged with multiple counts of fabrication of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of torture to secure "confessions," and murders during pre-trial detention of "suspects."0.