Terror And Communist Politics
Terror And Communist Politics

Author: Jonathan R Adelman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1000314359

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From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature on the subject and presents new studies of secret-police forces and the political use of terror in the USSR, China, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Cambodia. The focus of each country study is the nature and extent of internal terror and repression, the range of external intelligence functions, and the effect of secret-police interference in internal policymaking processes. The book ably fills a void in the literature by providing needed case studies as well as a theoretical framework for understanding secret-police activity.

Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 40 (1986)
Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 40 (1986)

Author: United Nations

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2023-08-28

Total Pages: 1351

ISBN-13: 9004636722

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Issued annually since 1946/47, the Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations, providing a comprehensive, one-volume account of the Organization's work. It includes details of United Nations activities concerning trade, industrial development, natural resources, food, science and technology, social development, population, environment, human settlements, children and legal questions, along with information on the work of each specialized agency in the United Nations family. The Yearbook is an indispensable guide to the UN.