Title:                      The Uses of Terror

Author:                 Boris Levytsky

Lewytzkyj, Borys (1972). The Uses of Terror: The Soviet Secret Police, 1917-1970. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

LCCN:    74180724

HV8224 .L413 1972

Subjects

• Secret service–Soviet Union.

Notes

• Translation of: Die rote Inquisition, by H. A. Piehler

Date Posted:      April 25, 2016

Reviewed by Paul W. Blackstock and Frank L. Schaf[1]

English translation of a serious history of the evolution of Soviet political police from the revolution to mid-1970.[In German the book is] Die rote Inquisition: die Geschichte der sowjetischen Sicherheitsdienste. Frankfurt/Main: Societats-Verlag, 1967

[1] Blackstock, Paul W. (1978) and Frank L. Schaf, Jr. Intelligence, Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Operations: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., p. 100