Stalin's instruments of terror: CHEKA, OGPU, NKVD, KGB from 1917 TO 1991

About Stalin's instruments of terror: CHEKA, OGPU, NKVD, KGB from 1917 TO 1991

After taking control of the Communist Party in 1923 and later becoming de facto dictator of the Soviet Union, Stalin used the OGPU to implement mass collectivisation and deportations of the wealthy peasants. This book charts Stalin's use of the re-named NKVD to carry out the purges of the 1930s in which millions were arrested and ended their lives in forced-labour camps, and countless other millions were executed outright. This book looks at the organisation of the state's secret police in Russia during this time, its vast network of spies and informers, its units within the Red Army, as well as the dozens of special prisons and camps. It details the oppression carried out against Stalin's opponents during World War II, when hundreds of thousands of Cossacks and White Russians were killed outright as soon as they fell into Soviet hands as the Red Army advanced towards Germany. Following…

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