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

Emphasizes the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. This book finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, and sectarians. Zusammenfassung Emphasizes the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. This book finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals! deviant youth! and sectarians.

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• Authors: David R. Shearer, SHEARER DAVID R, Shearer David R.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2009
• EAN: 9780300149258
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14925-8
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes; Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era