Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953

by David R. Shearer

Policing Stalin's Socialism 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 Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300149255
• ISBN13: 9780300149258
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"