Secret Leviathan : secrecy and state capacity under Soviet communism /

"The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Harrison, Mark, 1949- (Συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Licensed eBooks
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: Stanford, California : Hoover Institution : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Σειρά:Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism.
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3572691
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Secret Leviathan
  • The secrecy/capacity tradeoff
  • The secrecy tax
  • Secrecy and fear
  • Secret policing and discrimination
  • Secret policing and mistrust
  • Secrecy and the uninformed elite
  • Secrecy and twenty-first century authoritarianism.