The Secret Police and the Soviet System - New Archival Investigations

A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael David-Fox
• Assisted by: Michael David-Fox (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2023
• EAN: 9780822948025
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4802-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 239 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 764 g
• Series: Russian and East European Stud; Russian and East European Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries