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Lost to the collective : suicide and the promise of Soviet socialism, 1921-1929 / Kenneth M. Pinnow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinnow, Kenneth Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Soviet Union--History.
- Suicide.
- Suicide--Political aspects--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this landmark book, suicide becomes an incredibly revealing lens through which to interpret how experts and Bolsheviks diagnosed the health of revolutionary society.
- Contents:
- Suicide and social (dis)integration in revolutionary Russia
- Suicide and the collective individual in the Bolshevik Party
- Suicide and social autopsy
- Markers of modernity : moral statistics and the making of Soviet suicide
- Suicide and surveillance : medicopolitics in the Red Army
- Epilogue : suicide and Stalinism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5913-3
- OCLC:
- 726824216
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