Renovating Russia
Subtitle: the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930
By: Daniel Beer.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780801446276
Subjects: 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; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970; Russia -- Moral conditions; Soviet Union -- Moral conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Morel's children"; title: The etiology of degeneration; title: "The flesh and blood of society"; title: "Microbes of the mind"; title: Social isolation and coercive treatment after the revolution.