Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: a Modern Paradox — Subject and Citizen in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russia....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Branding the Exile as ‘Other’: Corporal Punishment and the Construction of Boundaries in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia....Pages 19-40
Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost’ and Modernity in Imperial Russia....Pages 41-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
To Make a Difference: the Category of Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russian Politics, 1861–1917....Pages 67-86
What’s so Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? State Practices and the New-Style Politics, 1914–21....Pages 87-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science of Society in Bolshevik Russia, 1920–29....Pages 115-137
The Dictatorship of Sex’: Science, Glands, and the Medical Construction of Gender Difference in Revolutionary Russia....Pages 138-160
Modernization or Neo-traditionalism? Ascribed Nationality and Soviet Primordialism....Pages 161-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Narratives of October and the Issue of Legitimacy....Pages 185-203
Victim Talk: Defense Testimony and Denunciation under Stalin....Pages 204-220
Self-Realization in the Stalinist System: Two Soviet Diaries of the 1930s....Pages 221-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
European Modernity and Soviet Socialism....Pages 245-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-279