04146nam 2200793 a 450 991081017460332120240416114926.00-8014-6847-710.7591/9780801468476(CKB)3400000000085086(dli)HEB08924(SSID)ssj0000682026(PQKBManifestationID)11449794(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000682026(PQKBWorkID)10682781(PQKB)10614131(MiAaPQ)EBC3138404(OCoLC)798794093(MdBmJHUP)muse28709(DE-B1597)515096(OCoLC)1083598363(DE-B1597)9780801468476(Au-PeEL)EBL3138404(CaPaEBR)ebr10629488(MiU)MIU01000000000000011609352(EXLCZ)99340000000008508620080115d2008 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrRenovating Russia the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930 /Daniel Beer1st ed.Ithaca Cornell University Press20081 online resource (ix, 229 p. ) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4627-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index."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.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.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Social sciencesRussiaHistorySocial sciencesSoviet UnionHistoryMedical sciencesRussiaHistoryMedical sciencesSoviet UnionHistorySocial engineeringRussiaHistorySocial engineeringSoviet UnionHistoryLiberalismRussiaHistoryRussiaIntellectual life1801-1917Soviet UnionIntellectual life1917-1970RussiaMoral conditionsSoviet UnionMoral conditionsSocial sciencesHistory.Social sciencesHistory.Medical sciencesHistory.Medical sciencesHistory.Social engineeringHistory.Social engineeringHistory.LiberalismHistory.300.947/09041Beer Daniel759716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810174603321Renovating Russia2300843UNINA