Lubi︠a︡nka. Stalin i VChK-GPU-OGPU-NKVD
Arkhiv Stalina. Dokumenty vysshikh organov partiĭnoĭ i gosudarstvennoĭ vlasti. I︠A︡nvarʹ 1922 - dekabrʹ 1936
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The present volume is a collection of documents dealing with the Soviet penal system. Soviet penal institutions such as VCheka (All Russian Special Commission for Combating Counter-revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation), GPU (State Political Administration = the secrete police), NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) were used as an effective tool for the state government and dictatorship consolidation. The role of Vladimir Ulyanov and Josif Dzhugashvili in its creation and functioning is in the center of attention.
