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Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology

Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology

Paperback

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5236

Russian HistorySexualitySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0691655553
ISBN13: 9780691655550
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.67 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Sex in Public examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of soruces--Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular science--the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupation with crime, disease, and, especially, sex. Using strategies of reading developed by literary scholars, he devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts. The book breaks new ground in its attention to the ideological importance of the female body during this important formative stage of Bolshevik rule.

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