The art and science of making the new man in early 20th-century Russia / edited by Yvonne Howell and Nikolai Krementsov.

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Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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Other Authors:
Howell, Yvonne, 1960- (Editor, writer of conclusion.)
Krement︠s︡ov, N. L. (Editor, Author)
Subjects:
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.
Russia > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life.
Format: Electronic eBook
The art and science of making the new man in early 20th-century Russia /
Table of 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.

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