Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941. By Paul Hagenloh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009. Pp. xx+460. $45.00.Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953. By David R. Shearer. Yale‐Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Stanford,

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<i>Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941</i>. By Paul Hagenloh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009. Pp. xx+460. $45.00.<i>Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953</i>. By David R. Shearer. Yale‐Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Stanford,