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Cultivating the masses : modern state practices and Soviet socialism, 1914-1939 / David L. Hoffmann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801462832
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV313 .C858 2011
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
1. Social welfare -- Cameralism, social science, and the origins of welfare -- The social realm in Russia -- Warfare and welfare -- The Soviet welfare state -- 2. Public health -- Social medicine and the state -- Social hygiene -- Foreign influences on Soviet health care -- Physical culture and its militarization -- 3. Reproductive policies -- Birthrates and national power -- Contraception, abortion, and reproductive health -- Promoting motherhood and family -- Eugenics -- Infant care and childraising -- 4. Surveillance and propaganda -- Monitoring popular moods -- Wartime propaganda -- Soviet surveillance -- Political enlightenment -- The new Soviet person -- 5. State violence -- Origins of modern state violence -- Internments, deportations, and genocide during the First World War -- The Russian Civil War and the 1920s -- Collectivization and passportization -- The mass operations -- The national operations -- Conclusion.
Summary: 'Cultivating the Masses' examines the Russian Communist Party's pursuit of pronatal policies to boost the population, whilst at the same time ruthlessly executing, incarcerating and deporting.
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'Cultivating the Masses' examines the Russian Communist Party's pursuit of pronatal policies to boost the population, whilst at the same time ruthlessly executing, incarcerating and deporting.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- 1. Social welfare -- Cameralism, social science, and the origins of welfare -- The social realm in Russia -- Warfare and welfare -- The Soviet welfare state -- 2. Public health -- Social medicine and the state -- Social hygiene -- Foreign influences on Soviet health care -- Physical culture and its militarization -- 3. Reproductive policies -- Birthrates and national power -- Contraception, abortion, and reproductive health -- Promoting motherhood and family -- Eugenics -- Infant care and childraising -- 4. Surveillance and propaganda -- Monitoring popular moods -- Wartime propaganda -- Soviet surveillance -- Political enlightenment -- The new Soviet person -- 5. State violence -- Origins of modern state violence -- Internments, deportations, and genocide during the First World War -- The Russian Civil War and the 1920s -- Collectivization and passportization -- The mass operations -- The national operations -- Conclusion.

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