Policing Stalin's socialism
Subtitle: repression and social order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
By: David R. Shearer.
Series: The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300149258
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953 -- Influence; Police -- Soviet Union -- History; Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- History; Social control -- Soviet Union -- History; Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History; Socialism -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Policing, social order, and repression under Stalin; title: A new kind of class war; title: Police and social disorder; title: A Soviet gendarmerie; title: Informants, surveillance, and prophylactic policing; title: Cataloging the population; title: The campaigns against marginals; title: Policing juveniles; title: Passports, identity, and mass policing; title: "Once and for all time" : background to the Great Purges; title: The mechanics of mass purging; title: Outside the margins : the case of Kiril Korenev; title: The War and postwar trends; title: Conclusions: Repression, citizenship, and Stalin's socialism.