Russia and the Cult of State Security : The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

ISBN-13: 9780415609333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 298 str.

Julie Fedor

Opis

This work explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology, the volume argues that successive Russian regimes have sponsored a 'cult' of state security, whereby security organs are held up as something to be worshipped.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Soviet Chekism  1. Dzerzhinsky’s Commandments  2. Late Soviet Chekism: The Changing Face of Repression under Khrushchev and Beyond  3. Screening the Historical Chekist  4. Screening the Contemporary Chekist  Part 2: Post-Soviet Chekism  Introduction  5. Re-Inventing Chekist Traditions  6. The Cult of Andropov  7. Securitizing the Russian Soul.  Conclusion

O autorze

Julie Fedor is a Research Associate on the project 'Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine', in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She has taught modern Russian history at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Melbourne and St Andrews, and has a PhD from King's College, Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar.