Russian Modernity

Russia shared in a wide European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had previously been treated as discrete entities: the social and the political, state and society, government and economy, and private and public. These were attributes of Soviet dictatorship, but their origins can be located in a larger European context and in the emergence of modern forms of government in Imperial Russia.

ISBN	0333753321	Pages	288
ISBN13	9780333753323 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	564
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	Published in	Basingstoke
Imprint	Palgrave Macmillan	Height (mm)	224
Format	Hardback	Width (mm)	145
Publication date	05 Jul 2000	Spine width (mm)	22
DEWEY	320.947	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY edition	DC21

	Acknowledgements
	Notes on the Contributors
1	Introduction: a Modern Paradox - Subject and Citizen in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russia by Yanni Kotsonis	1
Pt. I	Toward a Modern Politics: Consciousness and Universalism in Pre-Reform Russia
2	Branding the Exile as 'Other': Corporal Punishment and the Construction of Boundaries in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia by Abby M. Schrader	19
3	Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost' and Modernity in Imperial Russia by Nathaniel Knight	41
Pt. II	Reform and Revolution as Modern Moments
4	To Make a Difference: the Category of Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russian Politics, 1861-1917 by Charles Steinwedel	67
5	What's so Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? State Practices and the New-Style Politics, 1914-21 by Peter Holquist	87
Pt. III	The Paradox of Human Redeemability in Soviet Russia
6	Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science of Society in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-29 by Kenneth M. Pinnow	115
7	'The Dictatorship of Sex': Science, Glands, and the Medical Construction of Gender Difference in Revolutionary Russia by Frances L. Bernstein	138
8	Modernization or Neo-traditionalism? Ascribed Nationality and Soviet Primordialism by Terry Martin	161
Pt. IV	Narrative and Identity in the Soviet Context
9	Narratives of October and the Issue of Legitimacy by Frederick C. Corney	185
10	Victim Talk: Defense Testimony and Denunciation under Stalin by Golfo Alexopoulos	204
11	Self-Realization in the Stalinist System: Two Soviet Diaries of the 1930s by Jochen Hellbeck	221
Pt. V	Conclusion
12	European Modernity and Soviet Socialism by David L. Hoffmann	245
	Index	261

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