Советские силовики

Vserossiĭskui͡u chrezvychaĭnui͡u komissii͡u po borʹbe s kontrrevoli͡ut͡sieĭ i sabotazhem bolʹsheviki sozdavali dli͡a togo, chtoby spravitʹsi͡a s armieĭ chinovnikov, kotorye boĭkotirovali novui͡u vlastʹ i sabotirovali raspori͡azhenii͡a Soveta narodnykh komissarov. No rukovoditeli partii bystro poni͡ali t͡senu organam gosbezopasnosti kak vazhneĭshemu instrumentu kontroli͡a nad stranoĭ. Tak poi͡avilisʹ siloviki, kotorykh v staroĭ Rossii ne bylo. Novai͡a kniga L. Mlechina rasskazyvaet o treugolʹnike vlasti: partiĭnye sekretari, voenachalʹniki, rukovoditeli spet͡ssluzhb...

The All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage was created by the Bolsheviks in order to cope with the army of officials who boycotted the new government and sabotaged the orders of the Council of People's Commissars. But party leaders quickly realized the value of state security agencies as the most important tool for controlling the country. So there were security forces, which in the old Russia was not. The new book by L. Mlechin tells about the triangle of power: party secretaries, military leaders, heads of special services...