The "special" world : Stalin's power apparatus and the Soviet system's secret structures of communication /
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| Author / Creator: | Rosenfeldt, Niels Erik. |
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| Imprint: | Kopenhagen : Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2008. |
| Description: | 2 v. (1332 p.) : 35 ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Dissertations Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7197459 |
| Summary: | This groundbreaking two-volume study offers a comprehensive examination of some of the most secret structures of Soviet society-and in particular of Stalin's power and control mechaninsms. Having gained personal access to formerly closed archives in the 1990s-partly opened in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union but subsequently subject to restricted access due to the new Russian leadership-Niels Erik Rosenfeldt presents a detailed description of the principles and procedures for secrecy in the Soviet System of the 1920s. Leaving no stone unturned, Rosenfeldt investigates and discloses a labyrinthine development of Stalin's secret chancellery-the "Secret Department," the "Special Sector"-from the early 1920s to the death of Stalin in 1953. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 v. (1332 p.) : 35 ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788763507738 8763507730 |