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"Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat. This book will be of interest to professional scholars of Soviet history, twentieth-century history, and World War II history, and it is approachable enough to be appreciated by general readers"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Stalinism and the Industrial State -- I. THE STATE(S) OF THE ECONOMY IN THE LATE 1920s -- 1. Unruly Bureaucracies, Fragmented Markets -- 2. Wheeling and Dealing in Soviet Industry -- 3. Rabkrin and the Militarized Campaign Economy -- II. THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW STATE, 1928-1930 -- 4. What Kind of State? -- 5. The Politics of Modernization -- III. WORKING IN THE MADHOUSE, 1930-1934 -- 6. Daily Work in the Apparat -- 7. Purge and Patronage -- 8. The Pathologies of Modernization -- Conclusion: Socialism, Dictatorship, and Despotism in Stalin's Russia -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

"This 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 R. 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." "It 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. Shearer details the workings of informant networks, police registration systems, and widespread police cleansing campaigns and surveillance systems used to monitor and control the population."--Jacket.

"This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives"--

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Introduction: Policing, Social Order, and Repression under Stalin -- 1. A New Kind of Class War -- 2. Police and Social Disorder -- 3. A Soviet Gendarmerie -- 4. Informants, Surveillance, and Prophylactic Policing -- 5. Cataloging the Population -- 6. The Campaigns against Marginals -- 7. Policing Juveniles, Policing Debates -- 8. Passports, Identity, and Mass Policing -- 9. "Once and for All Time": Background to the Great Purges -- 10. The Mechanics of Mass Purging -- 11. Outside the Margins: The Case of Kiril Korenev -- 12. The War and Postwar Trends -- Conclusions: Repression, Citizenship, and Stalin's Socialism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.