The art and science of making the new man in early-twentieth-century Russia
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Names, Transliterations, and Translations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: On Words and Meanings -- Part I: Nurturing the New Man -- Chapter 1: Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London : Bloomsbury Academic,
2021
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| Schlagworte: | Sociobiology Human evolution Art and science Human evolution in literature Russia-Intellectual life-20th century Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Names, Transliterations, and Translations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: On Words and Meanings -- Part I: Nurturing the New Man -- Chapter 1: Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander Bogdanov and the Cognitive Creation of the New Man -- Chapter 2: "The Road to Life": Educating the New Man -- Chapter 3: The New Man in the Nursery: Making Soviet Dolls and Regulating Children's Play in the 1920s and 1930s -- Part II: Imagining the New Man -- Chapter 4: New Sciences, New Worlds, and "New Men" -- Chapter 5: Entertaining Sciences, Unlikely Horrors: The Changing Image of Man in Soviet Popular-Scientific Literary Genres -- Chapter 6: The New Man as a Monster of Eugenic Imagination: The Criminal Brain in James Whale's Frankenstein and Bulgakov's "The Heart of a Dog" -- Part III: Displaying the New Man: Part III -- Chapter 7: "A School of the Peasantry of the Future": Constructing the Image of a "New Peasant" at the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition, 1923 -- Chapter 8: Revolutionary Evolution in Apes and Humans in the 1920s: Sculpture and Constructs of the "New Man" at the Moscow Darwin Museum -- Chapter 9: The New Man in the Museum of Ethnography: Between Socialist Content and National Form -- Conclusion: The New Man: One Hundred Years Later -- Notes -- Further Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781350232853 1350232858 9781350232839 1350232831 |