The Permanent Purge: Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism (Russian Research Center Studies, 20)

Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928. In 1958 he became a United States citizen. President Carter chose Zbigniew Brzezinski for the position of National Security Adviser (NSA). "As the title indicates this book--one of the studies of the Harvard Russian Research Center--studies the purge as a continuing phenomenon of a totalitarian order. It is the author's well-considered view that the purge is an indispensable device for the continuation of such a regime."