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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-27 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 275
Pages: 275
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 354
Pages: 354
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-06 - Publisher: Yale University Press
This original analysis of the workings of the Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin illuminates the ways in which terror and repression in the Sov
Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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