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Author Morrissey, Susan K., 1963-

Title Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia / Susan K. Morrissey.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : illustrations, portrait.
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Series Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 9
Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index.
Contents Part I. Public order and its malcontents -- Victims of their own will -- Virtue and vice in an age of Enlightenment -- The regulation of suicide -- Punishing the body, cleansing the conscience -- Policing and paternalism -- Arbiters of the self: the suicide note -- Part II. Disease of the century -- Sciences of suicide -- Crime, disease, sin: disputed judgments -- A ray of light in the kingdom of darkness -- Part III. Political theology and moral epidemics -- Freedom, death, and the sacred -- Children of the twentieth century.
Summary In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This 2007 book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914, placing developments into a pan-European context. It argues against narratives of secularization that read the history of suicide as a trajectory from sin to insanity, crime to social problem, and instead focuses upon the cultural politics of self-destruction. Suicide - the act, the body, the socio-medical problem - became the site on which diverse authorities were established and contested, not just the priest or the doctor but also the sovereign, the public, and the individual. This panoramic history of modern Russia, told through the prism of suicide, rethinks the interaction between cultural forms, individual agency, and systems of governance.
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Subject Suicide -- Russia -- Sociological aspects.
Suicide.
Russia.
Suicide -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917.
Russia (Federation)
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1801-1917
Subject Russia (Pre-1917)
Chronological Term 1801-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Morrissey, Susan K., 1963- Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 052186545X 9780521865456 (DLC) 2007295321 (OCoLC)71238873
ISBN 0511257120 (electronic book)
9780511257124 (electronic book)
9780511257605 (electronic book)
0511257600 (electronic book)
9780511496806 (ebook)
051149680X (ebook)
9786610709854
6610709858
052186545X (Cloth)
9780521865456 (hardback)