book chapter
Internal security
Russia: a country study • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 555-592
By: Knight, Amy W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The post-Soviet Russian state moved quickly to dismantle the KGB, a powerful, pervasive Soviet era security agency. This study discusses the ways President Yeltsin implemented this goal and built successor security agencies. Despite initial success, reforms failed to establish a Western-style security apparatus committed to enforcing the rule of law. Instead of being politically neutral, successor agencies resorted to performing tasks similar to those of the KGB, including favoring Yeltsin and his friends while spying on and intimidating opposition political groups and adversarial media figures. Resulting public distrust and grievances contributed to the spread of crime and corruption.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Police
- Social control
- Chief executive
- Administrative agencies
- Government regulation
- Legal norms
- Crime
- Offenses against the state
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Prisons and jails
- Military organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1991-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Amy W. Knight
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 592a-592c)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97007563
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Internal Security--Russia (Federation)