Terror by quota [electronic resource] : state security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) / Paul R. Gregory.
Series: Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold WarPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.Description: viii, 346 p. : illISBN:- 9780300134254 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 366.28/30947 22
- JN6529.I6 .G73 2009eb

"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Stalin's Praetorians -- Ranks of the Chekist elite -- Organizing state security -- Political enemies -- Deadly Kremlin politics -- Planning terror -- Simplified methods -- The repressors' dilemma -- Conclusions.
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