New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies


David Shearer, “Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953″ (Yale UP, 2010)

February 22, 2011

[Crossposted from New Books in History] The question as to why the leaders of the Soviet Union murdered hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens during the Great Purges is one of the most important of modern history, primarily because it shapes what we