Stalin S Secret Police

Author : A. I︠U︡ Vatlin,Alexander Vatlin
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : 40,7 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 : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040134632

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Inside Stalin's Secret Police by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : Paul Hagenloh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Police
ISBN : OCLC:504930111

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Inside Stalin's Secret Police by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : Simon Wolin,Robert M. Slusser
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000027351369

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The Soviet Secret Police by Simon Wolin,Robert M. Slusser Pdf

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 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.

Author : Niels Erik Rosenfeldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Russia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038792227

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Knowledge and Power by Niels Erik Rosenfeldt Pdf

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Secret service
ISBN : IND:30000127027658

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Stalin's Secret War by Rupert Butler Pdf

The use of terror has been a characteristic of Russia from the days of the Tsars. During 'the Great Patriotic War', Soviet soldiers and citizens feared not only the Germans but the secret police. The agents of the NKVD waged a merciless campaign against their own people. The full extent of this operation is told in this compelling study.

Author : John Arch Getty,Oleg V. Naumov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : W/ G. Krivitsky
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528760201

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In Stalin's Secret Service by W/ G. Krivitsky Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Dr. Vadim Birstein
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849546898

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Smersh by Dr. Vadim Birstein Pdf

SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror they actually spread in the name of their dictator. Stalin drew a veil of secrecy over SMERSH's operations in 1946, but that did not stop him using it to terrify Red Army dissenters in Leningrad and Moscow, or to abduct and execute suspected spooks - often without cause - across mainland Europe. Formed to mop up Nazi spy rings at the end of the Second World War, SMERSH gained its name from a combination of the Russian words for 'Death to Spies'. Successive Communist governments suppressed traces of Stalin's political hit squad; now Vadim Birstein lays bare the surgical brutality with which it exerted its influence as part of the paranoid regime, both within the Soviet Union and in the wider world. SMERSH was the most mysterious and secret of organisations - this definitive and magisterial history finally reveals truths that lay buried for nearly fifty years.

Author : Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780393806

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Revelations from the Russian Archives by Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Krivitsky Krivitsky
Publisher : Enigma Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936274895

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In Stalin's Secret Service by Krivitsky Krivitsky Pdf

Cold War beginnings--a classic true-spy story told by one of the great Soviet spies.

Author : Robert W. Stephan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058084487

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Stalin's Secret War by Robert W. Stephan Pdf

An animated adaptation of the story of the same title by Maurice Sendak in which a small boy makes a visit to the land of the wild things. Tells how he tames the creatures and returns home. For primary grades.