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Cultivating the masses : modern state practices and Soviet socialism, 1914-1939 /

'Cultivating the Masses' examines the Russian Communist Party's pursuit of pronatal policies to boost the population, whilst at the same time ruthlessly executing, incarcerating and deporting.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmann, David L. (David Lloyd), 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cornell paperbacks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Social welfare
  • Cameralism, social science, and the origins of welfare
  • The social realm in Russia
  • Warfare and welfare
  • The Soviet welfare state
  • 2. Public health
  • Social medicine and the state
  • Social hygiene
  • Foreign influences on Soviet health care
  • Physical culture and its militarization
  • 3. Reproductive policies
  • Birthrates and national power
  • Contraception, abortion, and reproductive health
  • Promoting motherhood and family
  • Eugenics
  • Infant care and childraising
  • 4. Surveillance and propaganda
  • Monitoring popular moods
  • Wartime propaganda
  • Soviet surveillance
  • Political enlightenment
  • The new Soviet person
  • 5. State violence
  • Origins of modern state violence
  • Internments, deportations, and genocide during the First World War
  • The Russian Civil War and the 1920s
  • Collectivization and passportization
  • The mass operations
  • The national operations
  • Conclusion.