Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State-电子书百科大全

Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Author: by Immo Rebitschek (Editor), Aaron B. Retish (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
Language: English
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1487544278
ISBN-13: 9781487544270

Book Description

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 from across the former Soviet Union, they analyse the wide network of state institutions that were used for regulating individual behaviour and how Soviet citizens interacted with them. Together they show that social control in the Soviet Union was not entirely about the monolithic state imposing its vision with violent force. Instead, a wide range of institutions such as the police, the justice system, and party-sponsored structures in factories and farms tried to enforce control.

The book highlights how the state leadership itself adjusted its policing strategies and moved away from mass repression towards legal pressure for policing society. Ultimately, Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev explores how the Soviet state controlled the behaviour of its citizens and how the people relied on these structures.

Review

"This exceptional volume breaks new ground in the field of Soviet history. The contributors explore how the Communist state used social control along with coercion to maintain its hold on the Soviet population. From Stalin's extraordinarily brutal use of violence, the method of governing shifted to greater reliance on persuasion and law after his death. From investigations of how alimony was extracted from deadbeat dads to a deep dive into the mentality of a Georgian secret policeman, this innovative scholarship provides nuance and revelation to what we thought we knew about the Soviet experiment."―Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History and Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History, University of Chicago
"Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev goes beyond state repression to explain how the Soviet state and its institutions interacted with each other and with individual citizens to exert social control in a myriad of fields, including housing, taxation, abortion, alimony, juvenile delinquency, criminality, and welfare provisions. The contributors demonstrate the limits of state control and the importance of individual agency. The result is a more realistic, less ideological approach to understanding Soviet state and society. This collection is an important contribution to the historiography."―Lynne Viola, University Professor Emerita of History, University of Toronto, and author of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial

About the Author

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.

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