Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes – serie
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Master of the House
Stalin and His Inner Circle
Inbunden, 2008
1206 kr
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Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in …
Terror by Quota
State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study)
Inbunden, 2009
940 kr
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This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citizens? Why did repression come in waves or cycles? …
Policing Stalin's Socialism
Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
Häftad, 2009
789 kr
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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 …
Propaganda State in Crisis
Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927-1941
Häftad, 2011
473 kr
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The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to …
Funding Loyalty
The Economics of the Communist Party
Av Eugenia Belova, Valery Lazarev
Häftad, 2013
565 kr
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The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the party’s role in the Soviet institutional design. Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet …
Art of the Bribe
Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953
Inbunden, 2016
1035 kr
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The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War IIIn the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen’s innovative and compelling study examines corruption …
Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag
Inbunden, 2017
986 kr
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A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terrorIn a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often …
Gulag Town, Company Town
Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
Inbunden, 2014
959 kr
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This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban …
Lost Politburo Transcripts
From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship
Av Paul R. Gregory, Norman Naimark
Häftad, 2014
506 kr
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In this groundbreaking book, prominent Western and Russian scholars examine the “lost” transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. Never intended for publication or …
Guns and Rubles
The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State
Häftad, 2014
525 kr
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For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians—R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison—scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense …
Gulag Letters
Av Arsenii Formakov, Emily D. Johnson
Inbunden, 2017
1281 kr
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A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor campsEmily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and …
Stalin Cult
A Study in the Alchemy of Power
Av Jan Plamper
Inbunden, 2012
880 kr
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Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around …
Brazil, 1964-1985
The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War
Av Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna
Inbunden, 2017
410 kr
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An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime.Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout …
Catholics on the Barricades
Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956
Inbunden, 2018
417 kr
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In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life—not with guns, but French philosophyThis collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol …
Security Empire
The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
Av Molly Pucci
Inbunden, 2020
639 kr
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A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern GermanyThis book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the …
