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- Title
Translating the State: Czechoslovakia’s Search for the Soviet Model of the Secret Police, 1945–52.
- Authors
PUCCI, MOLLY
- Abstract
The article discusses Czechoslovakia's search for the Soviet model of the Secret Police in 1945-1952. Topics include Czech secret police official Jindřich Veselý's observation tour of the Polish secret police to become familiar with the organization of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland, the creation of Soviet secret police Cheka and the Commissariat of Internal Affairs, and the political approach of the totalitarian model and the social approach of the revisionists.
- Subjects
CZECHOSLOVAKIA; SOVIET Union; SECRET police; VESELY, Jindrich; POLISH history -- 1945-; CZECHOSLOVAKIAN politics &; government
- Publication
Kritika: Explorations in Russian & Eurasian History, 2017, Vol 18, Issue 2, p317
- ISSN
1531-023X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/kri.2017.0020