The "special" world : Stalin's power apparatus and the Soviet system's secret structures of communication

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Main Author: Rosenfeldt, Niels Erik
Other Authors: Laird, Sally (Translator), Kendal, John (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, ©2009.
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953
Stalin, Iosif, > 1878-1953.
Stalin, Iosif V.
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za > History.
Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza.
1917-1953
Secrecy > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Official secrets > Soviet Union > History.
Communication in politics > Soviet Union > History.
Executive power > Soviet Union > History.
Bureaucracy > Soviet Union > History.
Secret > Aspect politique > URSS > Histoire.
Secrets d'État > URSS > Histoire.
Communication politique > URSS > Histoire.
Pouvoir exécutif > URSS > Histoire.
Bureaucratie > URSS > Histoire.
15.70 history of Europe.
Bureaucracy.
Communication in politics.
Executive power.
Official secrets.
Politics and government.
Politisches System
Politische Kommunikation
pouvoir politique > Staline, Joseph.
stalinisme > système politique.
institutions politiques > URSS > 1922 > 1953.
services secrets > URSS > 1922 > 1953.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1917-1936.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1936-1953.
Soviet Union.
Sowjetunion.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • V. 1. Previous studies
  • The present challenge
  • General problems
  • A question of information
  • Secrecy : Principles and Procedures
  • The general significance of "conspiracy''
  • The bureaucratic system
  • Basic characteristics of the secret system
  • The Top of The Pyramid
  • The basic service apparatus
  • The Secretary General's men and women
  • The secret apparatus seen from inside
  • The Information Bureau
  • Control of cadres
  • The key features of the secret chancellery
  • New Bureaucratic Constellations
  • Unrest in the secret apparatus
  • Mobilisation preparedness and consolidation of the "rear''
  • Mobilisation preparedness and the Communist Party's secret apparatus
  • The Special Sector and its Sister Institutions
  • The Special Sector in action
  • The internal structure of the Special Sector
  • The Organisation Bureau's technical secretariat
  • The Bureau of International Information
  • and the institutional context
  • The secret Party apparatus and the organisation of the Terror
  • Old and new faces
  • Changes in the secret apparatus
  • The red threads
  • Patterns in the Decision-Making Process
  • The government apparatus versus the Special Sector : developments
  • The government apparatus versus the Special Sector : endgame
  • The overall picture.
  • V. 2. Special Departments and Other Special Organs at the Headquarters of the State Security Service
  • The First Special Department
  • The Second Special Department (for operative techniques) and the Fourth Special Department (for laboratories)
  • Other special departments
  • Other "special'' apparatuses
  • The position of the special departments
  • A related apparatus : the state security service's First Department (the Special Section)
  • The total complex
  • The Comintern's Secret Apparatus
  • Central chancellery functions at Comintern headquarters
  • The secret international communications apparatus
  • The "Secret Department'' and the "Special Department''
  • Basic features of the Comintern's secret apparatus
  • Conclusion
  • The Central Structures
  • The "Special'' List
  • Summary in Danish.

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