@article{428697,
      recid = {428697},
      author = {Shearer, David R.,},
      title = {Policing Stalin's socialism repression and social order in  the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press ;},
      address = {New Haven, Conn. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 507 p.) :},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/428697},
}