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The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State - Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91 (Paperback)
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The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State - Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91 (Paperback)
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'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring
how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined
the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'
Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A Short History of
Russia Repression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies
assisted in the establishment of the Soviet state, and helped
maintain it in power, but could not, in the end, prevent its
collapse. Citizens of the West have, for the most part, been told a
very simplified story of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that
was the USSR. In fact, it was sustained by more than just policing
and force. No amount of revisionist history can erase the reality
of millions controlled, imprisoned and killed, but there was much
more to the USSR's one-party state than this. Whittock tells a more
complex story of the combination of cruelty, co-operation and
compromise required to build and run a one-party state. Much of
this is the story of the role played by the secret police in
creating and sustaining such a form of government, but it is much
more than simply a 'history of the secret police'. This is because
the 'police state' which emerged (in which dissent, both real and
imaginary, was undoubtedly policed, threatened and ruthlessly
eliminated) was more than just the product of the arrests,
interrogations, executions and imprisonments carried out by the
secret police. The USSR was also made possible by a battle for
hearts and minds which led millions of people to feel that they
really had benefited from the system and had a stake in the new
society.
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