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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Introduction
Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish

Part I. Negotiating Terror and Social Discipline in the 1930s

Controlling the Soviet Family through Alimony: Righteous Women, Starving Children, and Bad Fathers, 1925-39
Aaron B. Retish

Nashi/ne Nashi, Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932-9
Samantha Lomb

Social Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers’ Rights under Stalin
Maria Starun

"Such was the Music, Such was the Dance": Understanding the Internal and External Motivations of a Stalinist Perpetrator
Timothy K. Blauvelt

Part II. Forging Society in War and Peace

Soviet "Hard Labour," Population Management, and Social Control in the Postwar Gulag
Alan Barenberg

The Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of "Thieves"
Juliette Cadiot

"They are afraid": Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940-54
Amanda McNair

Part III. Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control

From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s
Immo Rebitschek

After the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
Yoram Gorlizki

From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era
Evgenia Lezina

Social Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality
Dina Moyal

Stalin’s Socialisms
David Shearer

List of Contributors