Terror by quota
Subtitle: state security from Lenin to Stalin : an archival study
By: Paul Gregory.
Series: The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780300134254
Subjects: Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History; Internal security -- Soviet Union -- History; Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stalin's Praetorians; title: Ranks of the Chekist elite; title: Organizing state security; title: Political enemies; title: Deadly Kremlin politics; title: Planning terror; title: Simplified methods; title: The repressors' dilemma; title: Conclusions.