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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beer, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1801-1970
Social sciences > Russia > History.
Social sciences > Soviet Union > History.
Medical sciences > Russia > History.
Medical sciences > Soviet Union > History.
Social engineering > Russia > History.
Social engineering > Soviet Union > History.
Liberalism > Russia > History.
Sciences sociales > Russie > Histoire.
Sciences sociales > URSS > Histoire.
Sciences de la santé > Russie > Histoire.
Sciences de la santé > URSS > Histoire.
Ingénierie sociale > Russie > Histoire.
Ingénierie sociale > URSS > Histoire.
Libéralisme > Russie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Intellectual life
Liberalism
Medical sciences
Moral conditions
Social engineering
Social sciences
Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.
Russia > Moral conditions.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1917-1970.
Soviet Union > Moral conditions.
Russie > Vie intellectuelle > 1801-1917.
URSS > Vie intellectuelle > 1917-1970.
Russia
Soviet Union
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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