Freud and the Bolsheviks
Subtitle: psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
By: Martin A. Miller.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.; Psychoanalysis -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.; Psychoanalysis -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This book is the first comprehensive history of psychoanalysis in Russia from the last years of the tsars to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using rare Russian sources and newly opened Soviet archives, Martin A. Miller explores Sigmund Freud's influence in Russia during the twentieth century, discusses the lives of the Russian Freudians, and explicates for the first time original Russian psychoanalytic case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index.