Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge and Practices, 1800-1950 (Hardcover, 2000)

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors INTRODUCTION A Modern Paradox: Subject and Citizen in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Russia; Y.Kotsonis PART I: TOWARD A MODERN POLITICS: CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNIVERSALISM IN PRE-REFORM RUSSIA Branding the Exile as 'Other': Corporal Punishment and the Construction of Boundaries in Mid-nineteenth-century Russia; A.M.Schrader Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost' and Modernity in Imperial Russia; N.Knight PART II: REFORM AND REVOLUTION AS MODERN MOMENTS To Make a Difference: The Category of Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russian Politics, 1861-1917; C.Steinwedel What's So Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? State Practices and the New-Style Politics, 1914-1921; P.Holquist PART III: THE PARADOX OF HUMAN REDEEMABILITY IN SOVIET RUSSIA Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science of Society in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-1929; K.M.Pinnow Science, Glands, and the Medical Construction of Gender Difference in Revolutionary Russia; F.L.Bernstein Modernization or Neo-Traditionalism? Ascribed Nationality and Soviet Primordialism; T.Martin PART IV: NARRATIVE AND IDENTITY IN THE SOVIET CONTEXT Narratives of October and the Issue of Legitimacy; F.C.Corney Victims Talk: Defense Testimony and Denunciation under Stalin; G.Alexopoulos Self-Realization in the Stalinist System: Two Soviet Diaries of the 1930s; J.Hellbeck CONCLUSION European Modernity and Soviet Socialism; D.L.Hoffmann Index