"Morel's children" -- The etiology of degeneration -- "The flesh and blood of society" -- "Microbes of the mind" -- Social isolation and coercive treatment after the revolution.
Summary
This is a comparative investigation of late imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Beer shows how liberal programmes of scientific social engineering developed in the imperial period meshed with the radical project of Bolshevism.
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