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Organisation bureaucratique et relations avec le parti

Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti v poslevoennyj period.

Oleg HLEVNJUK
p. 535-548

Abstracts

Abstract
Stalin and state security organs after World War II.
Our article analyzes the basic methods used by Stalin to exert control over state security organs during his final decade (1945-1953). We study the circumstances surrounding the replacement of leaders at the Ministry of State Security in 1946 and 1951, the 1951 purges in the Ministry related to the “Abakumov affair” and the purges of 1952-1953 related to the “Doctors’ plot affair”. We show how Stalin manipulated the two most influential supports of the regime -- the party apparatus and state security organs. We think that the facts described in this article lead us to disagree with versions found in the literature that Stalin lost control over the main levers of power during the last months of his life.

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Bibliographical reference

Oleg HLEVNJUK, “Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti v poslevoennyj period.”Cahiers du monde russe, 42/2-4 | 2001, 535-548.

Electronic reference

Oleg HLEVNJUK, “Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti v poslevoennyj period.”Cahiers du monde russe [Online], 42/2-4 | 2001, Online since 01 January 2007, connection on 19 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/8466; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.8466

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