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Renovating Russia : The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930 by Daniel Beer is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>Renovating Russia</i> is a richly comparative investigation of late Imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Daniel Beer argues that in the late Imperial years liberal psychiatrists, psychologists, and criminologists grappled with an intractable dilemma. They sought to renovate Russia, to forge a modern enlightened society governed by the rule of law, but they feared the backwardness, irrationality, and violent potential of the Russian masses. Situ
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel Beer
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801468476
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Engineering
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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