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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.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 507 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Influence.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 -- Influence.
Police -- Soviet Union -- History.
Police.
Soviet Union.
History.
Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- History.
Political persecution.
Social control -- Soviet Union -- History.
Social control.
Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History.
Political purges.
Socialism -- Soviet Union.
Socialism.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1917-1936
Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Chronological Term 1936-1953
1917-1953
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Police.
Other Form: Print version: Shearer, David R., 1952- Policing Stalin's socialism. New Haven : Yale University Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University, ©2009 9780300149258 (DLC) 2009005138 (OCoLC)306800708
ISBN 9780300156225 (electronic book)
0300156227 (electronic book)
0300149255 (Paper)
9780300149258 (Paper)
9780300149258 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1282353225
9781282353220