Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction and Theory
- Part II Comparative Historical Analysis: Polish People’s Republic and the German Democratic Republic
- Part III Cross-national Quantitative Analysis
- 6 Introduction to Part III
- 7 Post-Stalinist Transitions, Elite Cohesion, and Coercive Agent Tenure
- 8 Chekists and Secret Informants: Post-Stalinist Transitions, Elite Cohesion, and Coercive Capacity
- Part IV Conclusion
- Appendix A Secret Police Agencies and Chiefs in Socialist Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989
- Appendix B Survival Analysis, Chapter 7
- Appendix C Agency Size Analysis, Chapter 8
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Introduction to Part III
from Part III - Cross-national Quantitative Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction and Theory
- Part II Comparative Historical Analysis: Polish People’s Republic and the German Democratic Republic
- Part III Cross-national Quantitative Analysis
- 6 Introduction to Part III
- 7 Post-Stalinist Transitions, Elite Cohesion, and Coercive Agent Tenure
- 8 Chekists and Secret Informants: Post-Stalinist Transitions, Elite Cohesion, and Coercive Capacity
- Part IV Conclusion
- Appendix A Secret Police Agencies and Chiefs in Socialist Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989
- Appendix B Survival Analysis, Chapter 7
- Appendix C Agency Size Analysis, Chapter 8
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In this part of the book, I move from a comparative historical analysis of Poland and East Germany in Part II to an analysis of quantitative data drawn from all the socialist dictatorships of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The purpose of the following two chapters is to test whether the argument developed in Chapter 2 can travel beyond the Polish and East German cases examined above to explain variation in the turnover of coercive elites and the size of coercive institutions across the region from 1945 to 1989.
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- Watching the WatchersCommunist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe, pp. 175 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024