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Social Control Under Stalin and Khrushchev
The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Immo Rebitschek (Edited by), Aaron B. Retish (Edited by)
9781487544270
Hardback, published 12 September 2023
368 pages, 1 b&w map, 1 b&w figure, 7 b&w tables
23.5 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm, 0.66 kg
"Individual essays present well-researched and careful analysis for scholars interested in legal and police systems; taken in its entirety, this collection provides a nuanced depiction of the goals and methods of the Soviet project." - Deborah A. Field, University of Michigan (The Russian Review)
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.
List of Tables and Figures 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 Nashi/ne Nashi, Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932–9 Social Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers’ Rights under Stalin "Such was the Music, Such was the Dance": Understanding the Internal and External Motivations of a Stalinist Perpetrator Part II. Forging Society in War and Peace Soviet "Hard Labour," Population Management, and Social Control in the Postwar Gulag The Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of "Thieves" "They are afraid": Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940–54 Part III. Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s After the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era Social Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality Stalin’s Socialisms List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish
Aaron B. Retish
Samantha Lomb
Maria Starun
Timothy K. Blauvelt
Alan Barenberg
Juliette Cadiot
Amanda McNair
Immo Rebitschek
Yoram Gorlizki
Evgenia Lezina
Dina Moyal
David Shearer