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Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia /
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, meanin...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Cambridge social and cultural histories ;
9. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511257120 9780511257124 9780511257605 0511257600 9780511496806 051149680X 9786610709854 6610709858 9780511319785 0511319789 1107169933 9781107169937 1280709855 9781280709852 0511256051 9780511256059 0511256620 9780511256622 |