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Throughout history, dictators have constructed secret police agencies to neutralize rivals and enforce social order. But the same agencies can become disloyal and threatening. This book explores how eight communist regimes in Cold War Europe confronted this dilemma. Divergent strategies caused differences in regimes of repression, with consequences for social order and political stability. Surviving the shock of Josef Stalin's death, elites in East Germany and Romania retained control over the secret police. They grew their coercive institutions to effectively suppress dissent via surveillance and targeted repression. Elsewhere, ruling coalitions were thrown into turmoil after Stalin's death, changing personnel and losing control of the security apparatus. Post-Stalinist transitions led elites to restrict the capacity of the secret police and risk social disorder. Using original empirical analysis that is both rigorous and rich in fascinating detail, Henry Thomson brings new insights into the darkest corners of authoritarian regimes.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Dedication -- Original Copyright Page -- General Preface -- Author's Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I: The Time of Troubles 1642-60 -- I: Introduction -- II: Parliament and the King, 1642-46 -- III: Parliament and Ecclesiastical Problems, 1642-46 -- IV: The Rule of Parliament, 1642-46 -- V: The King, Parliament, and the Army, 1647-49 -- VI: The Search for a Settlement, 1649-60 -- Part II: The Period of the Restoration 1660-88 -- I: Introduction -- II: The Kingship -- III: Parliament -- IV: Legislation -- V: Revenue and Taxation -- VI: Privy Council and Cabinet -- VII: King, Parliament, and Ministers -- VIII: The Problem of Sovereignty -- IX: Church and State -- X: Justice -- XI: The Forces of the Crown -- XII: The Press -- Part III: The Revolution Settlement 1689-1719 -- I: Introduction -- II: The Kingship -- III: Parliament -- IV: Legislation -- V: Revenue and Taxation -- VI: Privy Council and Cabinet -- VII: King, Parliament, and Ministers -- VIII: The Union with Scotland -- IX: The Problem of Sovereignty -- X: Church and State -- XI: Justice -- XII: The Forces of the Crown -- XIII: The Press -- Part IV: The Age of Conservatism 1720-1801 -- I: Introduction -- II: The Kingship -- III: Parliament -- IV: Legislation -- V: Revenue and Taxation -- VI: Privy Council and Cabinet -- VII: King, Parliament, and Ministers -- VIII: The Union with Ireland -- IX: The Problem of Sovereignty -- X: Church and State -- XI: Justice -- XII: The Forces of the Crown -- XIII: The Press -- Part V: Some Administrative Developments 1660-1801 -- Part VI: English Local Government -- Conclusion -- Bibliographical Appendix -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Glossary of US Politics and Government -- Appendix A Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States -- Appendix B Chief Justices of the United States -- Appendix C Historic Strength of Political Parties within the US Federal Government

Introduction -- The development of an institutional costs framework for security and intelligence -- Counterterrorism and cooperative success and failure in the intelligence and security spheres -- Counterterrorism, collaboration, and direction and oversight -- The paradoxical case of cooperative success and failure in military and defence intelligence -- The relative management and cooperation of the upper levels of defence intelligence in the United Kingdom and United States -- Conclusion.

Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock, such as sex before marriage, adultery and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people.
The courts of the seventeenth century – when 'a cyclonic shattering' produced a 'great overturning of everything in England' – have, surprisingly, had to wait until now for scrutiny. Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business and, crucially, the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts.
While the study will capture the interest of lawyers to clergymen, or from local historians to sociologists, its primary appeal will be to researchers in the field of Church history. For students and researchers of the seventeenth century, it provides a full account of court operations, measuring the extent of control, challenging orthodoxies about excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times and, ultimately, presents powerful evidence for a 'church in danger' by the end of the century.

Pat Thomson takes on England's muddled education system and exposes fraudulent and unethical practices, including the skewing of the curriculum and manipulation of results. She argues for an urgent review of current practices, leading to a revitalised education system that has the public good at its heart.

"Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries-they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above"--