Is there a way to export/force specific execution order of a process?

Is there a way to export/force specific execution order of a process? When debugging multi-threaded programs, I often end up in a corrupt state but have no idea how I ended up in that state. I want to be able to re-run the program in the same order to be able to investigate the intermediary states that lead to that final corrupt state. Is there any debugger out there that let's me do this? Is there anyway I could extend say for example GDB to add something that helps me in this regard? (I wouldn't mind picking this up as a personal project) Any good resources I should be looking at?