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Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw

Autor Brian LaPierre
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2012
Swearing, drunkenness, promiscuity, playing loud music, brawling—in the Soviet Union these were not merely bad behavior, they were all forms of the crime of "hooliganism." Defined as "rudely violating public order and expressing clear disrespect for society," hooliganism was one of the most common and confusing crimes in the world's first socialist state. Under its shifting, ambiguous, and elastic terms, millions of Soviet citizens were arrested and incarcerated for periods ranging from three days to five years and for everything from swearing at a wife to stabbing a complete stranger.

Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia offers the first comprehensive study of how Soviet police, prosecutors, judges, and ordinary citizens during the Khrushchev era (1953–64) understood, fought against, or embraced this catch-all category of criminality. Using a wide range of newly opened archival sources, it portrays the Khrushchev period—usually considered as a time of liberalizing reform and reduced repression—as an era of renewed harassment against a wide range of state-defined undesirables and as a time when policing and persecution were expanded to encompass the mundane aspects of everyday life. In an atmosphere of Cold War competition, foreign cultural penetration, and transatlantic anxiety over "rebels without a cause," hooliganism emerged as a vital tool that post-Stalinist elites used to civilize their uncultured working class, confirm their embattled cultural ideals, and create the right-thinking and right-acting socialist society of their dreams.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299287443
ISBN-10: 0299287440
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 9 b-w tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

"A superb piece of work—an engaging, lively, well-written, and wholly original account of the Khrushchev leadership's preoccupation and attempts to deal with a variety of forms of deviance."—Peter H. Solomon, Jr., University of Toronto, author of Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin

"Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia provides a rich and at times beautifully constructed portrait of how the Soviet hooligan was depicted in the public imagination and it shows how, at a time of major transition and uncertainty, the Soviet administration turned to deviancy as a mirror image that could be used to affirm its core civilizational values."—Yoram Gorlizki, author of Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle

"LaPierre deserves praise for helping enrich our understanding of Khrushchev-era hooliganism. This well-written and affordably priced book makes it highly suitable for class assignments."—The Slavonic East European Review

"LaPierre's work stands as an important contribution to a growing body of literature that seeks to present the Khrushchev-era Thaw as more multifaceted and contradictory than the golden age that Soviet intelligentsia imagined after the fact." —Stephen Bittner Russian Review

“Elegantly written and judiciously argued. . . . LaPierre’s work stands as an important contribution to a growing body of literature that seeks to present the Khrushchev-era Thaw as more multifaceted and contradictory than the golden age that Soviet intelligentsia imagined after the fact.”—The Russian Review

“Adds significantly to our understanding of crime and justice under Khrushchev. It also provides rich food for thought as scholars take on the challenge of fully understanding what living in the workers’ state actually meant for members of the urban proletariat some forty years into the experiment and in the wake of a devastating war.”—Journal of Modern History

Notă biografică

Brian LaPierre is assistant professor of European history and co-irector of International Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Cuprins

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 A Portrait of Hooliganism and the Hooligan during the Khrushchev Period
2 Private Matters or Public Crimes? The Emergence of Domestic Hooliganism in Soviet Russia
3 Making Hooliganism on a Mass Scale: The Campaign Against Petty Hooliganism
4 Empowering Public Activism: The Khrushchev-Era Campaign to Mobilize Obshchestvennost' in the Fight Against Hooliganism
5 The Rise and Fall of the Soft Line on Petty Crime
Conclusion: Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose: Hooliganism After Khrushchev
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Descriere

"A superb piece of work—an engaging, lively, well-written, and wholly original account of the Khrushchev leadership's preoccupation and attempts to deal with a variety of forms of deviance."—Peter H. Solomon, Jr., University of Toronto, author of Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin