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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebitschek, Immo, editor.

Retish, Aaron B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social control--Soviet Union--History.

Social control.

Social norms--Soviet Union--History.

Social norms.

Police--Soviet Union--History.

Police.

Criminal law--Soviet Union--History.

Criminal law.

Punishment--Soviet Union--History.

Punishment.

Soviet Union--Social policy.

Soviet Union.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Influence.

Stalin, Joseph.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971--Influence.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Under Stalin, the Soviet state used mass executions, forced deportations, and the Gulag prison system as tools to control the behavior of its citizens. However, while these activities were the most visible aspects of the regime’s repression they were only one aspect of a larger experience of social control: the enforcement of social norms and the punishment of deviance from them. Such social control did not just come from above. Stalinist subjects themselves made legal claims based on their own interests, whether that meant suing for alimony, divorce, or damages, or initiating criminal cases on their own behalf. This volume assembles the latest research on a wide range of actors in the Stalinist system and the variety of ways of policing social and individual behavior. That includes essays on the Gulag and mass terror, but also juvenile delinquency, housing and property disputes, abortion, and alimony. The editors draw this together through the concept of “social control,” which they draw from the scholarly literature in sociology and criminology. They have outlined a framework which should make the book useful to a wide range of Soviet and post-Soviet historians as well as scholars researching legal, sociological, and political aspects of modern authoritarian regimes."-- Provided by publisher.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4875-4423-5

OCLC:

1352254934