State Organized Terror: The Case Of Violent Internal Repression (series On State Violence , State Terrorism, And Human Rights)

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the antecedent structural factors conducive to state organized terror and provides insights into the political and social psychology of state terror. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 4 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 PART ONE Introduction 12 1 State Organized Terror: Tragedy of the Modern State 14 2 Repression, State Terrorism, and Genocide: Conceptual Clarifications 34 PART TWO The Structural Sources of State Organized Terror 50 3 Domination, State Power, and Political Repression 52 4 Sources of State Terrorism in Rural Central America 70 5 Repression and State Terror in Kenya: 1982-1988 88 6 The Development of the Secret Police in Communist States 110 7 Social Dynamics and the Disutility of Terror: Afghanistan, 1978-1989 124 PART THREE Terror as an Instrument of State Policy 144 8 The Ideological Governance of Perception in the Use of State Terror in Latin America: The Case of Argentina 146 9 Violent Repression in the Third Reich: Did It Stabilize Hitler's Rule? 164 10 The Refractory Aspect of Terror in Movement-Regimes 180 11 Genocidal Targeting: Two Groups of Victims in Pol Pot's Cambodia 218 12 Genocide of a Religious Group: Pol Pot and Cambodia's Buddhist Monks 238 PART FOUR The Social and Political Psychology of State Terror 252 13 The Rajk Trial and the Captive Mind in Hungary, 1949 254 14 Popular Support for the Soviet Political Trials of the Late 1920s and the Origins of the Great Purges 270 15 The Politics of Paranoia: Jonestown and Twentieth Century Totalitarianism 286 16 Suicides and Suicide Survivors of the Cultural Revolution 300 Coda: Enter the Demon 314 About the Editors and Contributors 320 The use of terror by governments against their own citizens is treated in this volume as a phenomenon manifesting itself in both right and left wing political regimes and in widely varying social contexts. This book aims for a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary understanding of repression.