{"product_id":"technologies-of-mind-and-body-in-the-soviet-union-and-the-eastern-bloc-9781350271265","title":"Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe project to create a New Man' and New Woman' initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history. Playing on the different meanings of the word technology'  as practice, knowledge and artefact  this edited volume brings together scholarship from across a range of fields to shed light on the ways in which socialist regimes in the Soviet bloc and Eastern Europe sought to transform and revolutionise human capacities. From external, state-driven techniques of social control and bodily management, through institutional practices of transformation, to strategies of self-fashioning, \u003ci\u003eTechnologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc \u003c\/i\u003eprobes how individuals and collectives engaged with  or resisted  the transformative imperatives of the Soviet experiment. The volume's broad scope covers topics including the theory and practice of revolutionary embodiment; the practice of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements  Note on Transliteration  Introduction \u003ci\u003eAnna Toropova and Claire Shaw \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1 Knowledges\u003c\/b\u003e 1 ‘Rest for the brain’ or ‘technology of the unconscious?’: Hypnosis in early Soviet medicine and culture \u003ci\u003eAnna Toropova, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\u003c\/i\u003e 2 From psychosis to psychopathy: Psychiatry and crime in communist Czechoslovakia (1948–70) \u003ci\u003eJakub Strelec, Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic\u003c\/i\u003e 3 Broadcasting communist morality: Sex education in Soviet Latvia \u003ci\u003eSiobhán Hearne, University of Manchester, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 4 Health and heroism: Shifting patterns in late socialist Central Europe \u003ci\u003eJan Arend, University of Tübingen, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2 Practices\u003c\/b\u003e 5 Work and therapy: Two visions of the Bulgarian New Man \u003ci\u003eJulian Chehirian, Princeton University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 6 ‘Human capabilities are limitless’: Will and self-improvement in postwar Soviet psychotherapy \u003ci\u003eAleksandra Brokman \u003c\/i\u003e 7 Soviet pioneers in smoking cessation: From group therapy in the 1920s to Cytisine in the 1970s \u003ci\u003eTricia Starks, University of Arkansas, USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3 Artefacts\u003c\/b\u003e 8 Illuminating microbes: Preventing infectious diseases with bactericidal lamps in Soviet medicine, 1917–53 \u003ci\u003eJohanna Conterio, University of Oslo, Norway\u003c\/i\u003e 9 Embodied technologies: Lilya Brik’s \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye \u003c\/i\u003e(1929) and Esfir Shub’s \u003ci\u003eToday \u003c\/i\u003e(1930) \u003ci\u003eLilya Kaganovsky, UCLA, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Arm race: The Cold War story of a bionic arm \u003ci\u003eFrances Bernstein, Drew University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 11 Dreams of a synaesthetic future: Technologies of deafness in late Soviet socialism \u003ci\u003eClaire Shaw, University of Warwick, UK \u003c\/i\u003e Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019648729431,"sku":"9781350271265","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350271265.jpg?v=1750780902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/technologies-of-mind-and-body-in-the-soviet-union-and-the-eastern-bloc-9781350271265","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}