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Reassessing the structures and strategies of the Soviet state, this book examines how social control under Stalin and Khrushchev evolved from mass repression to legal pressure.
List of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish
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
Aaron B. Retish
Nashi/ne Nashi, Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932-9
Samantha Lomb
Social Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers’ Rights under Stalin
Maria Starun
"Such was the Music, Such was the Dance": Understanding the Internal and External Motivations of a Stalinist Perpetrator
Timothy K. Blauvelt
Part II. Forging Society in War and Peace
Soviet "Hard Labour," Population Management, and Social Control in the Postwar Gulag
Alan Barenberg
The Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of "Thieves"
Juliette Cadiot
"They are afraid": Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940-54
Amanda McNair
Part III. Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control
From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s
Immo Rebitschek
After the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
Yoram Gorlizki
From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era
Evgenia Lezina
Social Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality
Dina Moyal
Stalin’s Socialisms
David Shearer
List of Contributors
About the author
Edited by Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish
