Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev -

Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev

The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Buch | Hardcover
368 Seiten
2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4427-0 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
Reassessing the structures and strategies of the Soviet state, this book examines how social control under Stalin and Khrushchev evolved from mass repression to legal pressure.
How did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violence in their lives?

In this book, the contributors examine how social control developed under Stalin and Khrushchev. Drawing on deep archival research from across the former Soviet Union, they analyse the wide network of state institutions that were used for regulating individual behaviour and how Soviet citizens interacted with them. Together they show that social control in the Soviet Union was not entirely about the monolithic state imposing its vision with violent force. Instead, a wide range of institutions such as the police, the justice system, and party-sponsored structures in factories and farms tried to enforce control.

The book highlights how the state leadership itself adjusted its policing strategies and moved away from mass repression towards legal pressure for policing society. Ultimately, Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev explores how the Soviet state controlled the behaviour of its citizens and how the people relied on these structures.

Immo Rebitschek is a research associate and an assistant professor of Russian history at the University of Jena. Aaron B. Retish is a professor of Russian history at Wayne State University.

List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations


Introduction
Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish

Part I. Negotiating Terror and Social Discipline in the 1930s

Controlling the Soviet Family through Alimony: Righteous Women, Starving Children, and Bad Fathers, 1925–39
Aaron B. Retish

Nashi/ne Nashi, Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932–9
Samantha Lomb

Social Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers’ Rights under Stalin
Maria Starun

“Such was the Music, Such was the Dance”: Understanding the Internal and External Motivations of a Stalinist Perpetrator
Timothy K. Blauvelt

Part II. Forging Society in War and Peace

Soviet “Hard Labour,” Population Management, and Social Control in the Postwar Gulag
Alan Barenberg

The Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of “Thieves”
Juliette Cadiot

“They are afraid”: Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940–54
Amanda McNair

Part III. Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control

From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s
Immo Rebitschek

After the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
Yoram Gorlizki

From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era
Evgenia Lezina

Social Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality
Dina Moyal

Stalin’s Socialisms
David Shearer

List of Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 b&w map, 1 b&w figure, 7 b&w tables
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 660 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-4427-8 / 1487544278
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-4427-0 / 9781487544270
Zustand Neuware
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