One Day We Will Live without Fear

One Day We Will Live without Fear is a collection of true stories which tells what daily life was like for people under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing from Communist Party and secret police records housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, author Mark Harrison describes how people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule. From the 1930s to the 1970s, the Soviet police state underwent many changes. With the end of Stalin’s rule, indiscriminate violence and arbitrary arrests became a thing of the past. But its underlying principles remained the same: to forestall any threat to the ruling Communist Party. The author outlines the seven basic principles on which that police state operated during its entire history, from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and illustrates them throughout the book. Although well-known people appear in the stories, the central characters are people who will have been remembered only within their families. These tales, chosen for their humanity and inhumanity, offer a glimpse of the inner workings of one of the world’s most effective and durable police states.

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