Title: Renovating Russia
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.
Subjects: History, Social engineering, Moral conditions, Intellectual life, Social sciences, Medical sciences, Liberalism, Social sciences, history, Soviet union, intellectual life, Soviet union, moral conditions, Russia (federation), history, Soviet union, history, Social Medicine
Places: Russia, Soviet Union
Time periods: 1801-1917, 1917-1970