Description: Further DetailsTitle: Renovating RussiaCondition: NewSubtitle: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930ISBN-10: 0801446279EAN: 9780801446276ISBN: 9780801446276Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/04/2008Description: Renovating Russia is a richly comparative investigation of late Imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Daniel Beer argues that in the late Imperial years liberal psychiatrists, psychologists, and criminologists grappled with an intractable dilemma. They sought to renovate Russia, to forge a modern enlightened society governed by the rule of law, but they feared the backwardness, irrationality, and violent potential of the Russian masses. Situating their studies of degeneration, crime, mental illness, and crowd psychology in a pan-European context, Beer shows how liberals' fears of societal catastrophe were only heightened by the effects of industrial modernization and the rise of mass politics. In the wake of the orgy of violence that swept the Empire in the 1905 Revolution, these intellectual elites increasingly put their faith in coercive programs of scientific social engineering. Their theories survived liberalism's political defeat in 1917 and meshed with the Bolsheviks' radical project for social transformation. They came to sanction the application of violent transformative measures against entire classes, culminating in the waves of state repression that accompanied forced industrialization and collectivization. Renovating Russia thus offers a powerful revisionist challenge to established views of the fate of liberalism in the Russian Revolution.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 28gAuthor: Daniel BeerGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Renovating Russia
Title: Renovating Russia
Subtitle: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930
ISBN-10: 0801446279
EAN: 9780801446276
ISBN: 9780801446276
Release Date: 06/04/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Renovating Russia : the Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General, General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Criminology
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Psychology, History, Medical
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Daniel Beer
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
