Renovating Russia: the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880 - 1930

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.

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 2008
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:IX, 229 S.
ISBN:9780801446276

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