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BL
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1018247
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b772617
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| Main Entry
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Beer, Daniel.
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| Title & Author
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Renovating Russia : : the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930 /\ Daniel Beer.
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| Publication Statement
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Ithaca, NY :: Cornell University Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
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| ISBN
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0801468477
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: 9780801468476
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0801446279
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9780801446276
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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"Morel's children" -- The etiology of degeneration -- "The flesh and blood of society" -- "Microbes of the mind" -- Social isolation and coercive treatment after the revolution.
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| Abstract
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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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Liberalism-- Russia-- History.
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Medical sciences-- Russia-- History.
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Medical sciences-- Soviet Union-- History.
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Social engineering-- Russia-- History.
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Social engineering-- Soviet Union-- History.
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Social sciences-- Russia-- History.
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Social sciences-- Soviet Union-- History.
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Intellectual life.
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Liberalism.
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Medical sciences.
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Moral conditions.
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Social engineering.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Reference.
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Social sciences.
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Russia, Intellectual life, 1801-1917.
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Russia, Moral conditions.
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Soviet Union, Intellectual life, 1917-1970.
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Soviet Union, Moral conditions.
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Russia.
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Soviet Union.
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| Dewey Classification
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300.947/09041
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| LC Classification
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H53.R9
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