The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th-Century Russia

ISBN-13: 9781350232839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 296 str.

Yvonne Howell; Nikolai Krementsov

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Preface List of Illustrations Introduction Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada) Part 1 – Nurturing the New Man 1. Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander Bogdanov and the Cognitive Creation of the New Man Michael Coates (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2. ‘The RoadtoLife’: Educating the New Man Lyubov Bugaeva (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) 3. The New Man in the Nursery: Making Soviet Dolls and Regulating Children’s Play in the 1920s and 30s Olga Ilyukha (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Part 2 – Imagining the New Man 4. New Sciences, New Worlds, and ‘New Men’ Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada) 5. Entertaining Sciences, Unlikely Horrors: The Changing Image of Man in Soviet Popular-Scientific Literary Genres Matthias Schwartz (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany) 6. The New Man as a Monster of Eugenic Imagination: The Criminal Brain in Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘Heart of a Dog’ and James Whale’s Frankenstein Irina Golovacheva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) Part 3 – Displaying the New Man 7. ‘A School of the Peasantry of the Future’: Constructing the Image of a ‘New Peasant’ at the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition Olga Elina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) 8. Revolutionary Evolution in Apes and Humans in the 1920s: Sculpture and Constructs of the New Man at the Moscow Darwin Museum Pat Simpson (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 9. A New Man in the Ethnographic Museum: Between the Socialist Content and the National Form Stanislav Petriashin (Russian Museum of Ethnography, Russia) Part 4 – Conclusion The New Man: One Hundred Years Later Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond, USA) List of Contributors Index