State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin / Rebecca Reich.
State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin / Rebecca Reich.
State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin / Rebecca Reich.
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[DeKalb, IL] : Northern Illinois University Press, [2018]
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G 2018/5234
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English
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x, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
[DeKalb, IL] : Northern Illinois University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
[2018]
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What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissents such as Aleksandr...
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State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin / Rebecca Reich.
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Place of publication from publisher website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/5234
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74VKV86b875O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV86b875O
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ISBN
0875807755 hardcover
9780875807751 hardcover
DDC
362.204220947
MMS ID
991024187512102626
