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Author Beer, Daniel.

Title Renovating Russia : the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930 / Daniel Beer.

Publication Info. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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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Subject Social sciences -- Russia -- History.
Social sciences.
Russia.
History.
Social sciences -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union.
Medical sciences -- Russia -- History.
Medical sciences.
Medical sciences -- Soviet Union -- History.
Social engineering -- Russia -- History.
Social engineering.
Social engineering -- Soviet Union -- History.
Liberalism -- Russia -- History.
Liberalism.
Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1801-1917
Subject Russia -- Moral conditions.
Moral conditions.
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
Chronological Term 1917-1970
Subject Soviet Union -- Moral conditions.
Chronological Term 1801-1970
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9780801468476 (electronic book)
0801468477 (electronic book)
9780801446276
0801446279 cloth alkaline paper