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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Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
Språk: | engelska |
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Stanford, California :
Hoover Institution : Stanford University Press,
[2023]
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Serie: | Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism.
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Länkar: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3572691 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.