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Books on: soviet secret police

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Encyclopedia Articles on: soviet secret police

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  • Secret Police
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of the Japanese secret police before...Revolution of 1917 the Soviet government instituted its own secret police, the Cheka...breakup of the Soviet Union, many documents...activities of the secret police. Nazi...Germany became a police state, a state...the power of the police, and especially...
     
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rapidly, however, and the Soviet Union exploded its first...relatively free interaction in Soviet society mandated by the...ushered in a new era in Soviet history. "Collective...Beria the power of the secret police was curtailed. Soviet...
     
  • Gulag
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police (originally the Cheka; subsequently...in the wastes of Siberia and the Soviet Far East. The system reached its...Stalin , who used it to maintain the Soviet state by keeping its populace in...
     
  • Shelepin, Aleksandr
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1918 94, political leader in the Soviet Union. Active in the Young Communist...head of the KGB (1958 61), the Soviet secret police. From 1962 to 1965 he was deputy...Politburo. He was removed from the Soviet Communist partys Central Committee...
     
  • Dzerzhinsk
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...until about 1919 and Rastyapino until 1929, when it was renamed in honor of Feliks Dzerzhinsky , founder of the Soviet secret police. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...
     

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