Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism by Mark Harrison

Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism

Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism

Mark Harrison

372 pages first pub 2023 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics
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The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of...

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