Pioneers of Russian Social Thought: Studies of Non-Marxian Formation in Nineteenth Century Russia and of Its Partial Revival in the Soviet Union.

In the mid-twentieth century in the Soviet Union, latent schizophrenia became an important concept and a matter of research and also of punitive psychiatry. This article investigates precursor concepts in early Russian psychiatry of the nineteenth century, and examines whether – as claimed in recent literature – Russian and Soviet research on latent schizophrenia was mainly influenced by the work of Eugen Bleuler.

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Staging the Folk: Choreographic Issues of National Representation

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/drs.2021.0344 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 222-246

Author(s):

Anthony Shay

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Soviet Union ◽

French Revolution ◽

Folk Dance ◽

Ethnic Representation ◽

Nation States ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The World ◽

Classical Ballet ◽

Dance Companies

This article looks at the multiple ways that folk dance has been staged in both the nineteenth century when character or national (the two terms were used interchangeably) dance was widely used in classical ballet, and the twentieth in which Igor Moiseyev created a new genre of dance related to it. The ballet masters that created character dance for ballet often created ballroom dances based on folk origin, but that would be suitable for the urban population. This popularity of national dance was the result of the burgeoning of romantic nationalism that swept Europe after the French Revolution. Beginning in the 1930s with Igor Moiseyev founding the first professional ‘folk dance’ company for the Soviet Union, nation states across the world established large, state-supported folk dance companies for purposes of national and ethnic representation that dominated the stages of the world for the second half of the twentieth century. These staged versions of folk dance, were, I argue an extension of nineteenth century national/character dance because their founding directors, like Igor Moiseyev, came from the era when ballet dancers were trained in that genre.

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Social Thought in the Soviet Union

The Russian Review ◽

10.2307/127137 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 102

Author(s):

Denis Dirscherl ◽

Alex Simirenko

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Social Thought ◽

The Soviet Union

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Projectile Weapons

The Morality of Weapons Design and Development - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3984-1.ch006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 94-117

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Soviet Union ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Different Types

The author shows some examples in order to see how justifications can be constructed, and defeated. Projectile weapons belong to many different types or categories, and in this chapter, the author considers examples of artillery and infantry weapons. He includes among the former torsion artillery developed by the Greeks over two millennia ago. This interesting example shows that weapons design has a long history. He considers the development of the modern rifle, which had its genesis in the nineteenth century, and the modern assault rifle. In all of these cases, the weapons were produced at one time and place, in one context, and came to be used in future times and places which the weapons designers could not have known about. To mention one example here, the standard German infantry rifle of both world wars first came into production in 1898 as a result of work started 25 years before. This weapon was used to murder millions of civilians, including Jews, in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.

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Bolshevik Disease and Stalinist Terror: On the Historical Casuistry of Artificial Pneumothorax

Medical History ◽

10.1017/mdh.2014.69 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 32-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Igor J. Polianski

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Side Effects ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽

Cultural History ◽

Historical Study ◽

Initial Development ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Artificial Pneumothorax ◽

History Of

AbstractFrom its initial development by Carlo Forlanini at the end of the nineteenth century until the advent of antibiotics in the 1940s, artificial pneumothorax was one of the most widely used treatments for pulmonary tuberculosis. However, there were strongly held reservations about this therapy because of its risks and side effects. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, such uncertainties became instruments of political denunciation. The leading Soviet pulmonary physician Volf S. Kholtsman (1886–1941) was alleged to have used the so-called ‘aristocratic therapy’ of artificial pneumothorax to kill prominent Bolsheviks. Drawing on documents from Stalin’s personal Secretariat, this historical study of the pneumothorax scandal contributes to the cultural history of tuberculosis, showing how it was instrumentalised for political purposes.

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Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.013.0020 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Nicolas Werth

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Russian Empire ◽

State Violence ◽

Ethnic Cleansing ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The Russian Empire

Between the middle of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth, the immense areas of the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union saw some extreme forms of state violence, though of course, in very different historical contexts. This article addresses the main specificities of the great episodes of deportation and ethnic cleansing in the later Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union, as well as an immense event that remained completely hidden for more than half a century, the ‘man-made famines’ of the early 1930s. It also discusses the applicability or otherwise of the word ‘genocide’ to the Ukrainian famine of 1932–3 and the deportation of the ‘punished peoples’ from 1941–4.

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