Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

Satter, David

ISBN 10: 0300098928 / ISBN 13: 9780300098921

Published by Yale University Press, 2003

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[Interesting provenance, from the library of Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Highlighting. "Ion Mihai Pacepa was a top Romanian intelligence officer who became the highest-ranking defector from the Soviet bloc when he fled Romania and sought asylum in the United States. Pacepa joined the Securitate intelligence agency in 1951 and rose in its ranks. At the time of his defection in 1978, Pacepa was a top general in Romania's much-feared Securitate secret police. He was also an adviser to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and he held other top security posts in the government.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300098928
• ISBN 13: 9780300098921
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 22 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Russian History

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Synopsis

This book tells the story of reform in Russia through the real experiences of individual citizens. Describing in detail the birth of a new era of repression, David Satter analyzes the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old way of thinking.

About the Author

David Satter is now senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.