Security empire : building the secret police in communist Eastern Europe, 1944-1952
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores how and why three countries with different histories and political cultures—Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany—came to adopt communist political systems in the period following the Second World War. Through a comparative study of one institution, the communist secret police, it explores the people, sentiments, debates, and motivations that turned post-war chaos into centrally organized communist states. It argues that secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany were never as homogenous and unified as historians have commonly assumed. In fact, Eastern European secret police forces developed different institutional forms depending on the social conditions, geography, and experiences of war of each country.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Pucci, Molly Marie |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Naimark, Norman M |
| Thesis advisor | Naimark, Norman M |
| Thesis advisor | Herzog, Tamar |
| Thesis advisor | Holloway, David |
| Thesis advisor | Jolluck, Katherine R |
| Thesis advisor | Weiner, Amir, 1961- |
| Advisor | Herzog, Tamar |
| Advisor | Holloway, David |
| Advisor | Jolluck, Katherine R |
| Advisor | Weiner, Amir, 1961- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Molly Marie Pucci. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Molly Marie Pucci
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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