Wilson Center Experts
Neil Bruce Weissman
Short-Term Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of History, Dickenson College
Wilson Center Project(s):
Soviet Government in the 1920s
Term:
May 01, 1984
May 01, 1984
Project Summary
Looks at the emergence of a regular police force in the Soviet state from the October Revolution to the even of Stalins revolution from above. Examines the role that the militsiia played in a central role in the new state.