The Secret Police & the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations - Couverture rigide

Livre 50 sur 50: Russian and East European Studies
 
9780822948025: The Secret Police & the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations
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ISBN 10 : 0822948028 ISBN 13 : 9780822948025
Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023

Synopsis

Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine after 2015, has allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways not previously possible. Moving beyond well-known cases of high-profile espionage and repression, this study is the first to showcase research from a wide range of secret police archives in former Soviet republics and the countries of the former Soviet bloc—some of which are rapidly closing or becoming inaccessible once again. Rather than focusing on Soviet leadership, The Secret Police and the Soviet System integrates the secret police into studies of information, technology, economics, art, and ideology. The result is a state-of-the-art portrait of one of the world’s most notorious institutions, the legacies of which are directly relevant for understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael David-Fox is professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History, Georgetown University. He is the author of Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union; Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941; and Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. David-Fox is also coeditor of Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945 and The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses.

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Éditeur
University of Pittsburgh Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822948028
ISBN 13 
9780822948025
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
432
Éditeur
David-Fox Michael
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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