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2007-04-11
Title
The Dictatorship of s**: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
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ISBN
9780875803715

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The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the first book to examine Soviet sexual enlightenment, a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the men and women who would build socialism. Leftist social theorists and political activists had long envisioned an egalitarian utopia, and after 1917, the medical profession took the leading role in solving the sex question (while at the same time carving out a niche for itself among postrevolutionary social institutions). Frances Bernstein reveals the tension between the doctors' advocacy for relatively liberal social policy and the generally proscriptive nature of their advice, as well as their lack of interest in questions of personal pleasure, fulfillment, and sexual expression. While supporting the goals of the Soviet state, the enlighteners appealed to irrefutable biological truths that ultimately supported a very traditional gender regime. The Dictatorship of Sex offers a unique lens through which to contemplate a central conundrum of Russian history: the relationship between the supposedly liberated 1920s and repressive 1930s. Although most of the proponents of sexual enlightenment in the 1920s would suffer greatly during Stalin's purges, their writings facilitated the Stalinist approach to sexuality and the family. Bernstein's book will interest historians of Russia, gender, sexuality, and medicine, as well as anyone curious about social and ideological experiments in a revolutionary culture.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780875803715
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Number of Pages
264 Pages
Publication Name
Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Author
Frances Lee Bernstein
Series
Niu Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
28 g
Item Width
152 mm

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United States
Title_Author
Frances Lee Bernstein

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