Social Control Under Stalin and Khrushchev

The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-12
Mått159 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487544270

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List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Introduction Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. RetishPart I. Negotiating Terror and Social Discipline in the 1930s Controlling the Soviet Family through Alimony: Righteous Women, Starving Children, and Bad Fathers, 1925–39Aaron B. RetishNashi/ne Nashi, Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932–9Samantha LombSocial Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers’ Rights under StalinMaria Starun"Such was the Music, Such was the Dance": Understanding the Internal and External Motivations of a Stalinist PerpetratorTimothy K. BlauveltPart II. Forging Society in War and PeaceSoviet "Hard Labour," Population Management, and Social Control in the Postwar GulagAlan BarenbergThe Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of "Thieves"Juliette Cadiot"They are afraid": Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940–54Amanda McNairPart III. Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950sImmo RebitschekAfter the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order Yoram GorlizkiFrom Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin EraEvgenia LezinaSocial Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality Dina MoyalStalin’s SocialismsDavid ShearerList of Contributors