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

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'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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoffmann, David L. (David Lloyd), 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Cornell paperbacks.
Subjects:
1917-1945
Public welfare > Soviet Union.
Welfare state > Soviet Union.
Socialism > Soviet Union.
Social Welfare > history
Family Planning Policy > history
Reproductive Rights > history
Communism > history
History, 20th Century
Aide sociale > URSS.
État providence > URSS.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Public welfare
Social conditions
Social policy
Socialism
Welfare state
Gesundheitspolitik
Politische Verfolgung
Sozialpolitik
Soviet Union > Social policy.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1917-1945.
USSR
URSS > Conditions sociales > 1917-1945.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Sovjetunionen > sociala förhållanden.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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