Summary:

Dr Henry Thomson, Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, discusses his new book Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe.

What You'll Learn:

• Elite cohesion, coercive capacity and social order in Authoritarian Regimes
• Stalinism and Post-Stalinist Transitions
• Comparative Case Study: Poland and East Germany and the applicability of Thomson's theory beyond Central and Eastern Europe

And much, much more...

Music Credit: Secret Room by Luminbird & Enigma by Benjamin Botkin