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.
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