Policing Stalin's socialism [electronic resource] : repression and social order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 / David R. Shearer.
Shearer, David R., 1952-
2009
HV8224 .S3756 2009eb
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Title Policing Stalin's socialism [electronic resource] : repression and social order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 / David R. Shearer.
Author Shearer, David R., 1952-
ISBN 9780300156225 (electronic book)
9780300149258
Imprint New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 507 p.) : ill.
Call Number HV8224 .S3756 2009eb
Summary "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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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
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Introduction: Policing, social order, and repression under Stalin
A new kind of class war
Police and social disorder
A Soviet gendarmerie
Informants, surveillance, and prophylactic policing
Cataloging the population
The campaigns against marginals
Policing juveniles, policing debates
Passports, identity, and mass policing
"Once and for all time" : background to the Great Purges
The mechanics of mass purging
Outside the margins : the case of Kiril Korenev
The war and postwar trends
Conclusions: Repression, citizenship, and Stalin's socialism.

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