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1 online resource (x, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328). |
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A cheerful empress and her gloomy critics : Catherine the Great and the eighteenth-century melancholy controversy / Ilya Vinitsky -- The Osvidetel'stvovanie and Ispytanie of insanity : psychiatry in Tsarist Russia / Lia Iangoulova -- Madness as an act of defence of personality in Dostoevsky's The double / Elena Dryzhakova -- Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian intelligentsia, and fan hysteria / Robert D. Wessling -- On hostile ground : madness and madhouse in Joseph Brodsky's 'Gorbunov and Gorchakov' / Lev Loseff -- The concept of revolutionary insanity in Russian history / Martin A. Miller -- The politics of etiology : shell shock in the Russian army, 1914-1918 / Irina Sirotkina -- Lives out of balance : the 'possible world' of Soviet suicide during the 1920s / Kenneth Pinnow -- Early Soviet forensic psychiatric approaches to sex crime, 1917-1934 / Dan Healey -- Writing about madness : Russian attitudes toward psyche and psychiatry, 1887-1907 / Angela Brintlinger -- 'Let them go crazy' : madness in the works of Chekhov / Margarita Odesskaya -- The genetics of genius : V.P. Efroimson and the biosocial mechanisms of heightened intellectual activity / Yvonne Howell -- Madwomen without attics : the crazy creatrix and the procreative Iurodivaia / Helena Goscilo -- A 'new Russian' madness? : Fedor Mikhailov's novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov's film Daun Khaus / Andrei Rogachevskii -- Methods of madness and madness as a method / Mikhail Epstein. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Includes some articles translated into English from the Russian. |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
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Mental illness. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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History. |
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Mental illness in literature.
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Mental illness in literature. |
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Literature and mental illness -- Russia (Federation)
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Literature and mental illness. |
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Psychiatry -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
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Psychiatry. |
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Genius and mental illness -- Russia (Federation)
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Genius and mental illness. |
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Mentally ill -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
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Mentally ill. |
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Biographies.
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Russia (Federation) -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Mental Disorders -- history. |
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Medicine in Literature. |
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Russia (Federation)
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Médecine dans littérature -- histoire -- Russie. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Brintlinger, Angela, editor.
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Vinit͡skiĭ, I. I͡U. (Ilʹi͡a I͡Urʹevich), 1969- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Madness and the mad in Russian culture. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007532101 (OCoLC)70777853 |
| ISBN |
9781442684539 (electronic book) |
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1442684534 (electronic book) |
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9780802091406 (alkaline paper) |
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0802091407 (alkaline paper) |
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0802083137 |
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9780802083135 |
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