A Soviet Theory of Broken Windows: Prophylactic Policing and the KGB’s Struggle with Dissent in the Baltic States
Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York CityA talk with Edward Cohn of Grinnell College. From the Jordan Center: >From the 1950s to the 1980s, the KGB sought to fight political unrest using a tactic called profilaktika, or “prophylaxis”: instead of arresting low-level political offenders, KGB officers summoned them to their offices for a supposedly informal “chat.” The KGB’s victims were manipulated or intimidated into confessing and…