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Martyn Whittock

The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State

Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91

Buch

The story that has been told in the West of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that was the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an oversimplification. The Soviet state was not sustained by policing and force alone.Repression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies may have assisted in the establishment of the USSR, and helped maintain its power, but these did not, in the end, prevent its collapse in 1991.No amount of revisionist history can erase the reality of millions controlled, imprisoned and killed, but there was much more to the USSR's one-party state than this. Whittock provides a more complex and compelling ac… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4721-4240-5
  • EAN: 9781472142405
  • Produktnummer: 31720924
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm

Über den Autor


Martyn Whittock graduated in Politics from Bristol University in 1980, where his degree special study was in the Development of the Soviet State. He taught history at secondary level for thirty-five years, teaching Soviet History at A-Level and writing an A-Level text book entitled Stalin's Russia and a GCSE textbook on Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-1941. He has acted as an historical consultant to the National Trust, the BBC and English Heritage and is the author or co-author of forty-eight books, including A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages, A Brief History of the Third Reich and Norse Myths and Legends.

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