...This documentary history explores Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, and it provides...

...This chapter discusses conspiracies during Stalin's rule, including those by the Shakhty group and the Industrial Party. It also looks at the economy during the dictatorial regime of Iosif Stalin. In late 1920s, the role of the Soviet political police officials expanded so as to achieve...

... tasks given to the Soviet political police by the Politburo and to establish a new cadre of Chekists. In addition, it reveals that the first of a series of ethnic deportations by the NKVD in the late summer of 1941 marked the war years. Communist Party and authority of police and security organs...

...This chapter shows that the history of the Soviet political police is connected to the history of Iosif Stalin and his rule. During the 1920s and 1930s, the jurisdiction and functions of political police expanded in several areas. These areas include social order in urban areas, forced labor...

...This chapter discusses the transformation of the Soviet political police during the 1930s from a revolutionary fighting organization into a kind of social gendarmerie. It looks at sabotage to the road to pure socialism. It also considers the expansion of the activities of Iosif Stalin's political...