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• Space. Imperial space : territorial thought and practice in the eighteenth century / Willard Sunderland
• The "great circle" of interior Russia : representations of the imperial center in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonid Gorizontov
• How Bashkiria became part of European Russia, 1762-1881 / Charles Steinwedel
• Mapping the empire's economic regions from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century / Nailya Tagirova
• State and evolution : ethnographic knowledge, economic expediency, and the making of the USSR, 1917-1924 / Francine Hirsch
• People. Changing conceptions of difference, assimilation, and faith in the Volga-Kama region, 1740-1870 / Paul Werth
• Thinking like an empire : estate, law, and rights in the early twentieth century / Jane Burbank
• From region to nation : the Don Cossacks, 1870-1920 / Shane O'Rourke
• Bandits and the state : designing a "traditional" culture of violence in the Russian Caucasus / Vladimir Bobrovnikov
• Representing "primitive communists" : ethnographic and political authority in early Soviet Siberia / Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
• Institutions. From the zloty to the ruble : the Kingdom of Poland in the monetary politics of the Russian empire / Ekaterina Pravilova
• The Muslim question in late imperial Russia / Elena Campbell
• The zemstvo reform, the Cossacks, and administrative policy on the Don, 1864-1882 / Aleksei Volvenko
• Peoples, regions, and electoral politics : the state Dumas and the constitution of new national elites / Rustem Tsiunchuk
• The Provisional Government and Finland : Russian democracy and Finnish nationalism in search of peaceful coexistence / Irina Novikova
• Designs. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the imperial geography of power / Anatolyi Remnev
• Imperial political culture and modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century / Sviatoslav Kaspe
• Federalisms and pan-movements : re-imagining empire / Mark von Hagen.

"Russian Empire" offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired political imaginaries and set limits on what the state could accomplish. Taken together, these rich essays provide important new frameworks for understanding Russia's imperial geography of power.
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• Introduction: Policing, social order, and repression under Stalin
• A new kind of class war
• Police and social disorder
• A Soviet gendarmerie
• Informants, surveillance, and prophylactic policing
• Cataloging the population
• The campaigns against marginals
• Policing juveniles, policing debates
• Passports, identity, and mass policing
• "Once and for all time" : background to the Great Purges
• The mechanics of mass purging
• Outside the margins : the case of Kiril Korenev
• The war and postwar trends
• Conclusions: Repression, citizenship, and Stalin's socialism.

Policing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Shearer details the workings of informant networks, police registration systems, and widespread police cleansing campaigns and surveillance systems used to monitor and control the population. Despite combined work of the political and civil police, these efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s. In fact, Shearer argues, the "Great Terror" of 1937-1938 cannot be understood in isolation from the social purging campaigns of the early and mid-1930s.
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