Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration, translations, and dates
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Public order and its malcontents
- Part II Disease of the century
- Part III Political theology and moral epidemics
- Epilogue
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Part III - Political theology and moral epidemics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration, translations, and dates
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Public order and its malcontents
- Part II Disease of the century
- Part III Political theology and moral epidemics
- Epilogue
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Summary
Revolutionary epochs – such as Russia is currently experiencing – provide rich materials for the study of social psychology. The influence of the conditions of social life upon the psyche of individuals and entire groups becomes particularly sharp, clear, and prominent.
Natan Vigdorchik, “Political Psychoses and Political Suicides,” 1907Since the time of the Japanese War, we have been living in an atmosphere of death: the mountains of corpses on the field of battle […] were replaced by the hundreds and thousands of executed. Alongside the cadres of death-row inmates appeared the cadres of suicides in the thousands. [The number of] executions has significantly declined, but the number of suicides continues to grow.
S. Arnova, “Suicide in the Past and the Present,” 1911- Type
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- Information
- Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia , pp. 271 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007