Social Control Under Stalin and Khrushchev

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. 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

"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)