| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: science and fiction -- "The Ray of Life": science in revolutions -- "Professor's Head": isolated organs -- "Neither life, nor death": anabiosis -- "The Billionaire's Last Will": hormones and institutions -- "The Dog's Heart" and monkey glands -- Quo vadimus?: human biology and human destiny -- Epilogue: an unending quest. |
| Summary |
Krementsov examines a particular fascination with the dream of immortality and the place of science and fiction in its pursuit in Russia during roughly a decade that followed the country's political revolutions of 1917. It argues that contemporary scientific experiments aimed at the control over life, death, and disease inspired many Russian writers to conduct their own literary experiments with the ideas and techniques offered by experimental biology and medicine, which found expression in both popular-science writings and a new literary genre, science fiction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature and science -- Soviet Union.
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Literature and science. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Biology -- Soviet Union -- Experiments.
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Biology. |
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Immortality in literature.
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Immortality in literature. |
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Biology in literature.
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Biology in literature. |
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Science fiction, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, Russian. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Krement͡sov, N.L. Revolutionary experiments : the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science and fiction. New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] xv, 268 pages 9780199992980 (DLC) 2013037097 |
| ISBN |
9780199992997 (electronic book) |
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0199992991 (electronic book) |
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9780199992980 (alkaline paper) |
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