Policing Stalin's socialism [electronic resource] : repression and social order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 / David R. Shearer.

9780300156225 (electronic book)
9780300149258

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University, c2009.

English

1 online resource (xiv, 507 p.) : ill.

HV8224 .S3756 2009eb

"This is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials David R. Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive." "It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Shearer details the workings of informant networks, police registration systems, and widespread police cleansing campaigns and surveillance systems used to monitor and control the population."--BOOK JACKET.

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