Author

Publication

2008 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

57,250 words, Guess

Page Count

229 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008002007
  • OCLC Control Number187394514
  • Better World Books9780801446276
  • Better World BooksP9-BWM-054
  • Open LibraryOL16474422M

Classifications

  • DDC300.947/09041
  • LCCH53.R9 B44 2008
  • LCCH53.R9B44 2008

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

Other Editions

  • Renovating Russia: the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930Cornell University Press2008-01-01

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