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Author:

Shearer, David R., 1952-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Hoover InstitutionStanford University,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiv, 507 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Police--Soviet Union--History.
Political persecution--Soviet Union--History.
Social control--Soviet Union--History.
Soviet Union--Social conditions.
Political purges--Soviet Union--History.
Socialism--Soviet Union--History.
Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953--Influence.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War

ISBN:

0300149255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780300149258 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)306800708

LCCN:

2009005138

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)