Terror by Quota State Security from Lenin to Stalin First Edition by Paul R Gregory ISBN 0300134258 978-0300134254

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ISBN 10: 0300134258

ISBN 13: 978-0300134254 

Author: Paul R. Gregory 

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? Why were economic and petty crimes regarded as political crimes? What was the reason for relying on extra-judicial tribunals? And what motivated the extreme harshness of punishments, including the widespread use of the death penalty?

Through an approach that synthesizes history and economics, Paul Gregory develops systematic explanations for the way terror was applied, how terror agents were recruited, how they carried out their jobs, and how they were motivated. The book draws on extensive, recently opened archives of the Gulag administration, the Politburo, and state security agencies themselves to illuminate in new ways terror and repression in the Soviet Union as well as dictatorships in other times and places.

Table of contents:

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

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