Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge and Practices

Name: Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge and Practices
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ISBN: 9780333753323

ISBN-10: 0333753321

ISBN-13: 9780333753323

Edition: 2000

Authors: David L. Hoffmann

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Russia shared in a European modernity marked by increased overlap of realms previously treated as discrete entities. Their origins can be located in a larger European context and in the emergence of modern forms of government in Russia.

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List price: $55.01
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd
Binding: Cloth Text
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Notes on the Contributors



Introduction: a Modern Paradox--Subject and Citizen in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russia




Toward a Modern Politics: Consciousness and Universalism in Pre-Reform Russia



Branding the Exile as 'Other': Corporal Punishment and the Construction of Boundaries in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia




Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost' and Modernity in Imperial Russia




Reform and Revolution as Modern Moments



To Make a Difference: the Category of Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russian Politics, 1861-1917




What's so Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? State Practices and the New-Style Politics, 1914-21




The Paradox of Human Redeemability in Soviet Russia



Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science of Society in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-29




'The Dictatorship of Sex': Science, Glands, and the Medical Construction of Gender Difference in Revolutionary Russia




Modernization or Neo-traditionalism? Ascribed Nationality and Soviet Primordialism




Narrative and Identity in the Soviet Context



Narratives of October and the Issue of Legitimacy




Victim Talk: Defense Testimony and Denunciation under Stalin




Self-Realization in the Stalinist System: Two Soviet Diaries of the 1930s




Conclusion



European Modernity and Soviet Socialism



Index