{"product_id":"policing-stalins-socialism-david-r-shearer-9780300149258","title":"Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolicing Stalin's Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Shearer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300149255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300149258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010","brand":"David R. Shearer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425003585791,"sku":"9780300149258","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22fa257b-c993-423b-96ac-b590572aa4b0.jpg?v=1761536334","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/policing-stalins-socialism-david-r-shearer-9780300149258","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}