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Sex in public : the incarnation of early Soviet ideology / Eric Naiman.
LIBRA DK266 .N22 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naiman, Eric, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism and sex--Soviet Union.
- Communism and sex.
- Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.
- Soviet Union.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 307 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Sex in Public examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power Drawing on a wide range of sources -- Party Congress transcripts, early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular science -- the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupation with crime, disease, and, especially, sex.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691026262
- OCLC:
- 35450552
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