Terror And Communist Politics
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Terror And Communist Politics

The Role Of The Secret Police In Communist States

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Terror And Communist Politics

The Role Of The Secret Police In Communist States

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781000314359
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Terror in Communist Regimes
  10. 3. Polish Secret Police
  11. 4. Soviet Secret Police
  12. 5. Romanian Secret Police
  13. 6. Czechoslovakian Secret Police
  14. 7. Hungarian Secret Police: The Early Years
  15. 8. Cambodian Secret Police
  16. 9. Toward Creation of a Just Social Order: Politics of Education in the Chinese People's Republic
  17. 10. Conclusions
  18. About the Contributors
  19. Index