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

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

Fedor, Julie

Paperback

Series: Studies in Intelligence

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsRussian History

ISBN10: 0415703476
ISBN13: 9780415703475
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2013
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book 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 from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, 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. The book approaches the history of this cult as an ongoing struggle to legitimise and sacralise the Russian state security apparatus, and to negotiate its violent and dramatic past. It explores the ways in which, during the Soviet period, this mythology sought to make the existence of the most radically intrusive and powerful secret police in history appear 'natural'. It also documents the contemporary post-Soviet re-emergence of the cult of state security, examining the ways in which elements of the old Soviet mythology have been revised and reclaimed as the cornerstone of a new state ideology.

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