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The art and science of making the new man in early-twentieth-century Russia / edited by Nikolai Krementsov and Yvonne Howell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution--Social aspects.
- History.
- Human evolution.
- Sociobiology.
- Russia--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Russia.
- Intellectual life.
- Soviet Union--Intellectual life.
- Soviet Union.
- Sociobiology--Russia--History--20th century.
- Sociobiology--Soviet Union--History.
- Human evolution--Social aspects--Russia--History--20th century.
- Human evolution--Social aspects--Soviet Union--History.
- Human evolution in literature.
- Art and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations (black and white
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: On words and meanings / Nikolai Krementsov
- Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander Bogdanov and the cognitive creation of the new man / Michael Coates
- 'The Road to Life': educating the new man / Lyubov Bugaeva
- The new man in the nursery: making Soviet dolls and regulating children's play in the 1920s and 1930s / Olga Ilyukha
- New sciences, new worlds, and 'New Men' / Nikolai Krementsov
- Entertaining sciences, unlikely horrors: the changing image of Man in Soviet popular-scientific literary genres / Matthais Schwartz
- The New Man as a monster of eugenic imagination: the criminal brain in Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Heart of a Dog' and James Whale's Frankenstein / Irina Golovacheva
- 'A School of the Peasantry of the Future': constructing the image of a 'New Peasant' at the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition, 1923 / Olga Elina
- Revolutionary evolution in apes and humans in the 1920s: sculpture and constructs of the New Man at the Moscow Darwin Museum / Pat Simpson
- A New Man in the Ethnographic Museum: between the socialist content and the national form / Stanislav Petriashin
- Conclusion. The New Man: one hundred years later / Yvonne Howell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Art and science of making the new man in early 20th-century Russia
- ISBN:
- 9781350232853
- 1350232858
- Publisher Number:
- 99989611365
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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