Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance During the Thaw

by Brian LaPierre

Swearing, drunkenness, promiscuity, playing loud music, brawling--in the Soviet Union these were not merely bad behavior, they were all forms of the crime of "hooliganism." Defined as "rudely violating public order and expressing clear disrespect for society," hooliganism was one of the most common and confusing crimes in the world's first socialist state. Under its shifting, ambiguous, and elastic terms, millions of Soviet citizens were arrested...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299287440
• ISBN13: 9780299287443
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"