Securing The Communist State
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Author | : Liesbeth van de Grift |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 073917178X |
From Berlin to Bucharest, from Warsaw to Sofia, Soviet tanks crossed national borders across East Central Europe at the end of the Second World War. The arrival of the Red Army marked an important turn in history. Within only a few years, the often unpopular communist parties developed into political organizations with mass followings. They managed to seize power, eliminate political opposition to their rule, and purge the state apparatus of undesirable personnel. In Securing the Communist State, Liesbeth van de Grift provides a new understanding of these organizations using recently disclosed material from the communist archives in Berlin and Bucharest. She reveals how these communist parties gained control over the security apparatus after 1945 in East Central Europe from a transitional justice perspective, focusing on purges and personnel policies. This book shows that the personal break after 1945 was not as radical as is often thought.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Communist strategy |
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Author | : B lint Magyar |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 6155513546 |
Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ
Author | : Molly Pucci |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300242573 |
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted "enemies of communism" in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan R Adelman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000314359 |
From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature on the subject and presents new studies of secret-police forces and the political use of terror in the USSR, China, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Cambodia. The focus of each country study is the nature and extent of internal terror and repression, the range of external intelligence functions, and the effect of secret-police interference in internal policymaking processes. The book ably fills a void in the literature by providing needed case studies as well as a theoretical framework for understanding secret-police activity.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1568 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Communism |
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