Terror And Communist Politics
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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 | : Dennis Deletant |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312219048 |
"This book will offer students of Communism in Eastern Europe a further comparative angle for their research, and Romanians themselves an authoritative study of a past which is still largely hidden from them."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Alexander Dallin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Communist state |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yonah Alexander |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis US |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 9780714640884 |
This unique volume explores Europe's most dangerous communist terrorist organizations and reveals how they use violence as a means of political communication and persuasion. It outlines seven terrorist groups from Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy and Turkey and gives their modus operandi, rationale and political messages in translated communiqués never before available in English.
Author | : Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290605830 |
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Author | : Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin |
Publisher | : Mehring Books |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1893638049 |
This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Far from Trotsky being a politically isolated figure, as both Stalinist and anti-communist historians have claimed, there was substantial sympathy for his criticism of the Stalin regime in the ranks and even in the leadership of the CPSU, and support for his demands for inner-party democracy, greater social equality and an international orientation to the Bolshevik goal of world revolution. It was this political fact, as Rogovin demonstrates, that accounts for the purge reaching so deeply into the party apparatus, the military, the Komsomol youth movement, and the broader layers of the population. Rogovin bases his analysis on scrupulous research, quoting from newly translated or unpublished documents, including memoirs, meeting minutes, newspaper articles and trial transcripts. He documents the reaction of different social layers to the purges, including workers, peasants, non-party intellectuals and the CPSU rank-and-file. This book includes rarely published photographs of the prison camps, documenting the lives of those labeled by Stalin;enemies of the people. Chronologically, this volume takes up where its predecessor, 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror , left off, with the June 1937 plenum of the Central Committee that followed the purging of the Soviet military command and the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and other leading generals. It analyzes such critical events as the Bukharin-Rykov trial, last of the infamous show trials; the massacre of Trotskyists in the Vorkuta slave-labor camp; and the assassination by Stalinist agents of Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son, and other oppositionists outside the Soviet Union. It concludes with an examination of how the purges transformed the CPSU and Soviet society as a whole.
Author | : Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1990-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780807002773 |
First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two armed camps. For Merleau-Ponty, the basic question was: given the violence in Communism, is Communism still equal to its humanist intentions? Starting with the assumption that a society is not a "temple of value-idols that figure on the front of its monuments or in its constitutional scrolls; the value of a society is the value It places upon man's relation to man," Merleau-ponty examines not only the Moscow trials of the late thirties but also Koestler's re-creation of them. And Merleau-Ponty makes it clear that the Moscow trials—and violence in general in the Communist world—can be understood only In the context of revolutionary violence. He demonstrates that it is pointless to begin an examination of Communist violence by asking whether Communism respects the rules of liberal thought; it is evident that Communism does not. The question that should be asked is whether the violence Communism exercises is revolutionary violence, capable of building humane relations among men. At a time when many are addressing similar questions to societies both in the East and in the West, Merleau-Ponty's investigations and speculations are of prime importance; they stand as a major and provocative contribution to the argument surrounding the use of violence.
Author | : Igal Halfin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003-07-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674010321 |
Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin provides new insight into the preconditions of the Great Purge.
Author | : Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786633442 |
Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of liberal democracy has a vital relevance today.
Author | : Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040482361 |