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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Secret police"”.
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A comparison of secret police systems in Peronist Argentina and Stalinist Russia.
… the most important instrument of fear is a secret police system which has been institutionalized to create the required atmosphere of terror. The understanding of such an instrument of terror as a political unit is of vast importance to every citizen of the free world. Through the comparison …
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Hidden Galleries, Silenced Communities: homegrown religious communities and the secret police in 20th century Romania
… thesis explores the methods used by the Romanian secret police against two homegrown Romanian religious communities, the Old Calendarists and the Tudorists, and the manner in which they survived persecution by engaging in conscious acts of resistance. The creation of alternative narratives by …
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Prestige, manipulation, and coercion : elite power struggles and the fate of three revolutions
… the leadership, and prevents the military and secret police from playing a special coercive role. This dissertation instead argues that the defining feature of one-party states is weak institutionalization. Power struggles are therefore determined by prestige and sociological ties, the …
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SACO: An ambivalent experience of Sino-American cooperation during World War II
… by a Chinese military intelligence agency (the secret police under Dai Li), SACO illustrated the difficulties Americans and Chinese (ostensibly allies) had in finding common ground."
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17 November and the Strategy of Deception: Was Golitsyn Right?
… in the future. On 17 November 1989, Czechoslovak secret police provocateurs led an official communist student demonstration away from its approved course of march in Prague. When the police surrounded and viciously attacked the crowd of protestors, one of the secret police agents posed as a dead …
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Organizing coercion in authoritarian Chile
… In 1974 the regime created a powerful secret police to better coordinate coercion through higher internal monitoring. The police resolved many organizational problems but failed to increase internal monitoring substantially.
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
… the case of the Stalinist purges of the Soviet secret police using individual-level career data. Extant conflicts and social cleavages often shape how states expand power to the periphery. The chapter “How Settlement and Inter-Ethnic Conflict Over Property Rights Shapes State Capacity” focuses …
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Living in the shadow: Britain and the USSR’s nuclear weapon delivery systems 1949-62
… to gather intelligence on nuclear bombers in a secret police state. The issue of the Soviet ballistic missile threat to the UK is then considered, again by initially examining intelligence provided by German returnees, through to more sophisticated intelligence collection methods such as …
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Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
… columns in popular film weeklies, fan letters, police reports, taxation policies, municipal memos and notices in the leftist press—to reveal the socially engaged and even revolutionary film communities that formed what I call a “counterpublic.” All the dissertation chapters thus deal with key …