The biopolitics of Stalinism : ideology and life in Soviet socialism /

The biopolitics of Stalinism : ideology and life in Soviet socialism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Prozorov, Sergei, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xiii, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953. Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953. Biopolitics -- Soviet Union. Biopolitics. Politics and government. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953. Soviet Union.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10507497

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ISBN:	9781474410533 1474410537 9781474410526 1474410529 9781474410540 9781474410557
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.
Summary:	"In contrast to Western rationalities of biopolitics, Soviet biopolitics was oriented less towards protecting life than towards transforming it in accordance with the communist ideal. In this book, Sergei Prozorov traces the emergence of the Soviet biopolitical project during the period of the Great Break (1928-32) and its subsequent modifications during High Stalinism. He then relocates the question of biopolitics down to the level of the subject, tracing the way the 'new Soviet person' was to be produced in governmental practices and the role violence and terror played in this construction."--Page 4 of cover.

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Call Number:	DK267.P76 2016
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