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Terror by quota state security from Lenin to Stalin : (an archival study) / by Gregory, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Stalin's Praetorians -- Ranks of the Chekist elite -- Organizing state security -- Political enemies -- Deadly Kremlin politics -- Planning terror -- Simplified methods -- The repressors' dilemma -- Conclusions.…”
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Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923 / by Smith, Scott B. (Scott Baldwin), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Dilemmas of civil war -- The shape of dictatorship -- Komuch -- The politics of the Eastern Front -- Between Red and White -- The end of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries -- "Renegades of Socialism" and the making of Bolshevik political culture.…”
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Conversations on Russia reform from Yeltsin to Putin / by Desai, Padma

Table of Contents: “…Reform maximalists -- Boris Yeltsin : the wrecking ball -- Anatoly Chubais : the "neo-bolshevik" privatizer -- Yegor Gaidar : the shock therapist -- Boris Nemtsov : the political activist -- Mikhail Kasyanov : the pro-market prime minister -- Strobe Talbott : Bill Clinton's "Russia hand" -- Reform gradualists -- Grigory Yavlinsky : the permanent oppositionist -- Sergei Rogov : in search of checks and balances at home and abroad -- Nodari Simonia : the pro-Putin vote -- George Soros : the active philanthropist -- Five policy perspectives -- Sergei Dubinin : monopoly sector reform in progress -- Oleg Vyugin : monetary policy in action -- Boris Jordan : media man and investor -- Anatoly Vishnevsky : demographic dilemmas -- Jack Matlock, Jr. : the road ahead -- The role of history -- Martin Malia : history lessons -- Richard Pipes : the past in the present.…”
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Revolution and Politics in Russia : Essays in Memory of B. I. Nicolaevsky /

Table of Contents: “…Wildman -- Marxist revolutionaries and the dilemma of power / Israel Getzler -- The All-Russian Railroad Union and the beginning of the general strike in October, 1905 / Walter Sablinsky -- The Social Democratic Movement in Latvia / Bruno Kalininš -- Stalin's revolutionary career before 1917 / Robert C. …”
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