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050 00 $aHV8224$b.S3756 2009
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100 1 $aShearer, David R.,$d1952-
245 10 $aPolicing Stalin's socialism :$brepression and social order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 /$cDavid R. Shearer.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a507 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aThe Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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 -- 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.
520 1 $a"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."--Jacket.
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650 0 $aPolitical persecution$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial control$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
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650 0 $aPolitical purges$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocialism$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
600 10 $aStalin, Joseph,$d1879-1953$xInfluence.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1917-1936.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953.
650 0 $aSocialism$zSoviet Union.
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