Terror by quota : state security from Lenin to Stalin : an archival study /

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Author / Creator:	Gregory, Paul R.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University, c2009.
Description:	viii, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Subject:	Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History. Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti. Internal security -- Soviet Union -- History. Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- History. Internal security. Political persecution. Politics and government Soviet Union -- Politics and government. Soviet Union. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7479424

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ISBN:	9780300134254 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300134258 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-334) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dictators, Their Enemies, and Repression
1. Stalin's Praetorians
2. Ranks of the Chekist Elite
3. Organizing State Security
4. Political Enemies
5. Deadly Kremlin Politics
6. Planning Terror
7. Simplified Methods
8. The Repressors' Dilemma
9. Conclusions
Appendix 1. The Power-Maximizing Dictator
Appendix 2. The Organization of State Security
Appendix 3. List of Repressed Residents of the Workers' Village of Mogochino, Tomsk Oblast
Appendix 4. Framing Enemies to Limit the Loss of Loyalty
Appendix 5. A Selectorate Model of Soviet Succession Struggles
Appendix 6. A Dictatorial Eliminations Model
Appendix 7. Simplified Methods
Notes
Index

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