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Homo Imperii : A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia /

It is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first schol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mogilʹner, Marina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:It is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in prerevolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism.
Physical Description:1 online resource (504 pages).
ISBN:9780803246034