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

Name: Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance During the Thaw
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ISBN: 9780299287443

ISBN-10: 0299287440

ISBN-13: 9780299287443

Edition: 2012

Authors: Brian LaPierre

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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 from three days to five years and for everything from swearing at a wife to stabbing a complete stranger. Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russiaoffers the first comprehensive study of how Soviet police, prosecutors, judges,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 12/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Portrait of Hooliganism and the Hooligan during the Khrushchev Period



Private Matters or Public Crimes? The Emergence of Domestic Hooliganism in Soviet Russia



Making Hooliganism on a Mass Scale: The Campaign against Petty Hooliganism



Empowering Public Activism: The Khrushchev-Era Campaign to Mobilize Obshchestvennost' in the Fight against Hooliganism



The Rise and Fall of the Soft Line on Petty Crime


Conclusion: Plus ï¿½a change, plus c'est la mï¿½me chose: Hooliganism after Khrushchev


Notes


Bibliography


Index