The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police: Lenin's Political Police - The All Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage, December 1917-February 1922 - Brossura

Leggett, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198228627 ISBN 13: 9780198228622

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1986

Riassunto

Established by Lenin just six weeks after the coup of October 1917, the Cheka was Soviet Russia's first political police organization. This closely documented study chronicles the Cheka's emergence as a vast, ubiquitous, and all-purpose apparatus for the suppression of internal opposition. Answerable solely to the Central Committee of the Communist Party as its "special organ of merciless summary justice," aspiring to security surveillance over the entire society, the Cheka set the scene for the 20th-century totalitarian police state and the succession of formidable Soviet political police agencies, from Stalin's OGPU and NKVD to today's KGB.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0198228627
• ISBN 13: 9780198228622
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 548