Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev : : The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State /

Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev : : The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State / / ed. by Immo Rebitschek, Aaron B Retish.

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 fro...

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Rebitschek, Immo,
Retish, Aaron B,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 b&w map, 1 b&w figure, 7 b&w tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Terms and Usage
  • Introduction
  • PART I Negotiating Terror and Social Discipline in the 1930s
  • 1 Controlling the Soviet Family through Alimony? Righteous Women, Starving Children, and Bad Fathers, 1925-1939
  • 2 Nashi/ne Nashi: Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932-1939
  • 3 Social Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers' Rights under Stalin
  • 4 "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
  • 5 Soviet "Hard Labour," Population Management, and Social Control in the Post-war Gulag
  • 6 The Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of "Thieves"
  • 7 "They Are Afraid": Medical Surveillance of Reproduction and Illegal Abortions in the Soviet Union, 1944-1953
  • PART III Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control
  • 8 From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s
  • 9 After the XXth Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
  • 10 From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police's New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era
  • 11 Social Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality
  • 12 Soviet Socialisms: From Stalin to Khrushchev
  • Contributors
  • Index

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