Brian Taylor, State Building in Putin’s Russia. Policing and Coercion after Communism, Cambridge University Press, March 2011. Continue reading
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Public Verdict Foundation’s Book – Police Reform & Public Opinion
Book – David R. Shearer, “Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953”
David R. Shearer. Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Publisher’s comments: 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. Continue reading
Book – Paul Hagenloh, “Stalin’s Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941”
Paul Hagenloh, Stalin’s Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941 ,Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010.
Publisher’s comments: Stalin’s Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Continue reading
Post-Soviet Affairs – Matthew Light’s article: « Policing Migration in Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow »

ISDP Policy Brief – Anna Jonsson, « Russia’s Police Reform – Medvedev’s Test? »
Anna Jonsson, « Russia’s Police Reform – Medvedev’s Test? ». Now available on the site of the Institute for Security & Development Policy in pdf format. Continue reading
Pipss.org – Issue 9 on “NGOs and Power Ministries in Russia”
Issue 9, 2009 available at – http://pipss.revues.org/index560.html – “NGOs and Power Ministries in Russia” Continue reading