Stalin and the Lubianka
Subtitle: a documentary history of the political police and security organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953
By: David R. Shearer and Vladimir Khaustov
Contributors: Khaustov, V. N. (Vladimir Nikolaevich), author
Series: Annals of communism; Annals of Communism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300171891
Subjects: Politics and government; Police; Social control; Political prisoners; Influence; Sources; Lubi︠a︡nka (Prison : Moscow, Russia); Internal security; History; Power (Social sciences)
Description: "This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on Translation, Document Presentation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations; title: List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Frequently Used Terms; title: Introduction: Stalin and the Lubianka; title: Expanding Power, Infiltrating the State, 1922-1927; title: Threats from Abroad, Infiltrating the Economy, 1927-1930; title: Subduing the Countryside, 1928-1933; title: Ordering Society, 1933-1937; title: The Great Purges, 1935-1939; title: Social and Ethnic Cleansing : The Mass Operations, 1937-1938; title: The Security Organs at War, 1939-1944; title: Border Wars, Plots, and Spy Mania, 1945-1953; title: Conclusion; title: Biographical Sketches; title: List of Documents.