Stalin's Police

Public Order and Mass Repression in the Ussr, 1926-1941

von Paul Hagenloh

480 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Paul Hagenloh argues that the policing methods employed in the late 1930s were the culmination of a set of ideologically driven policies dating back to the previous decade. Hagenloh's vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin's peculiar brand of policing--in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order--supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat
• ISBN: 9780801891823
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2009
• Größe: 236 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press