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The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia by Laura Engelstein; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances, in the staid assemblies of physicians, psychiatrists, and legal men—the talk everywhere was of sex. This eagerly awaited book, echoing the title of a pre-World War I bestseller, The Keys to Happiness, marks the first serious attempt to unders
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- Author
- Laura Engelstein; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501721298
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia (1996)
- The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia (1992)
- The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia (1994)
- The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia (2018)
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