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

2008 Cornell University ;ISBN: 9780801446276 ;ISBN: 0801446279 ;EISBN: 9780801468476 ;EISBN: 0801468477 ;DOI: 10.7591/9780801468476 ;OCLC: 798794093 ;LCCallNum: H53.R9B44 2008

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  • Title:
    Renovating Russia : the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930
  • Author: Beer, Daniel
  • Subjects: 1801-1917 ; 1917-1970 ; Criminology ; Entropy ; Europe ; Historical analysis ; HISTORY ; Intellectual life ; Intellectuals ; Liberalism ; Medical sciences ; Medicine ; Modernity ; Moral conditions ; Morality ; Russia ; Russia & the Former Soviet Union ; Scientific research ; Social engineering ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social sciences ; Soviet Union ; U.S.S.R
  • Description: Renovating Russiais 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 Russiathus offers a powerful revisionist challenge to established views of the fate of liberalism in the Russian Revolution.
  • Publisher: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
  • Creation Date: 2008
  • Format: 248
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780801446276
    ISBN: 0801446279
    EISBN: 9780801468476
    EISBN: 0801468477
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801468476
    OCLC: 798794093
    LCCallNum: H53.R9B44 2008
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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