David Shearer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.
“This is a pioneering work that radically revises traditional
understandings of Stalin's terror of 1937–38. Based on a meticulous
reconstruction of the dynamics and periodization of police
campaigns of repression in the 1930s, Shearer demonstrates how
social policing in the form of public-order campaigns determined
the contour of the terror. State security and public order merged
in the hunt for enemies, resulting in the massive social
engineering of Soviet society. This is a major new
conceptualization based on an unrivaled mastery of the
sources.”—Lynne Viola, University of Toronto
*Lynne Viola*
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