Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th-Century Russia

Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th-Century Russia

Krementsov, Professor Nikolai; Howell, Professor Yvonne

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

12/2021

296

Dura

Inglês

9781350232839

15 a 20 dias

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Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada)
Part 1 - Nurturing the New Man
1. Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander Bogdanov and the Cognitive Creation of the New Man Michael Coates (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
2. 'The RoadtoLife': Educating the New Man Lyubov Bugaeva (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
3. The New Man in the Nursery: Making Soviet Dolls and Regulating Children's Play in the 1920s and 30s Olga Ilyukha (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Part 2 - Imagining the New Man
4. New Sciences, New Worlds, and 'New Men' Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada)
5. Entertaining Sciences, Unlikely Horrors: The Changing Image of Man in Soviet Popular-Scientific Literary Genres Matthias Schwartz (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany)
6. 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 (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Part 3 - Displaying the New Man
7. 'A School of the Peasantry of the Future': Constructing the Image of a 'New Peasant' at the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition Olga Elina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
8. Revolutionary Evolution in Apes and Humans in the 1920s: Sculpture and Constructs of the New Man at the Moscow Darwin Museum Pat Simpson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
9. A New Man in the Ethnographic Museum: Between the Socialist Content and the National Form Stanislav Petriashin (Russian Museum of Ethnography, Russia)
Part 4 - Conclusion
The New Man: One Hundred Years Later Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond, USA)
List of Contributors
Index
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Russia; Modern History; Europe; Culture; Sciences; Humanities; Soviet Union; ideas; superior