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1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index. |
| Summary |
"In 1918 the People's Commissariat of Public Health began a quest to protect the health of all Soviet citizens, but health became more than a political platform or a tactical decision. The Soviets defined and categorized the world by interpreting political orthodoxy and citizenship in terms of hygiene. The assumed political, social, and cultural benefits of a regulated, healthy lifestyle informed the construction of Soviet institutions and identity. Cleanliness developed into a political statement that extended from domestic maintenance to leisure choices and revealed gender, ethnic, and class prejudices. Dirt denoted the past and poor politics; health and cleanliness signified mental acuity, political orthodoxy, and modernity." "Health, though essential to the revolutionary vision and crucial to Soviet plans for utopia, has been neglected by traditional histories caught up in Cold War debates. The Body Soviet recovers this significant aspect of Soviet thought by providing a cross-disciplinary, comparative history of Soviet health programs that draws upon rich sources of health care propaganda, including posters, plays, museum displays, films, and mock trials. The analysis of propaganda makes The Body Soviet more than an institutional history; it is also an insightful critique of the ideologies of the body fabricated by health organizations."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soviets (People) -- Health and hygiene.
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Soviets (People) |
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Hygiene -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.
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Hygiene. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Public health -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.
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Public health -- Political aspects. |
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Public health. |
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Propaganda, Communist -- Soviet Union.
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Propaganda, Communist. |
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Public Health -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Hygiene -- history. |
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Propaganda. |
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USSR. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Starks, Tricia, 1969- Body Soviet. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2008 9780299229603 (DLC) 2008011972 (OCoLC)223848670 |
| ISBN |
9780299229634 (electronic book) |
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0299229637 (electronic book) |
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0299229602 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299229603 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0299229645 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299229641 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1282445782 |
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9781282445789 |
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9780299229603 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299229641 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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