DOCSLIB.ORG

ANZUS and the Early Cold War

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
ANZUS and the Early Cold War ANZUS and the Early Cold War With and Without Galton Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia NIKOLAI KREMENTSOV WITH AND WITHOUT GALTON About the Publisher Open Book Publishers is a not-for-profit, scholar-led Open Access academic press and we are dedicated to revolutionising academic publishing, breaking down the barriers of high prices and restricted circulation so that outstanding academic books are available for everyone to read and share. If you believe that knowledge should be available to everyone, you can support our work with a monthly pledge or a one-off donation and become part of the OBP community: https://www.openbookpublish/pledge About the Author Nikolai Krementsov is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (Canada). He has published several monographs and numerous articles on various facets of the history of science, medicine, and literature in Russia and the Soviet Union. His latest publications include A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science (2011), Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in the Bolshevik Science and Fiction (2014), and The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon (2017), 2 vols. (co-edited with William deJong-Lambert). With and Without Galton Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia Nikolai Krementsov https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2018 Nikolai Krementsov This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Nikolai Krementsov, With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0144 Copyright and permissions for the reuse of many of the images included in this publication differ from the above. Copyright and permissions information for images is provided separately in the List of Illustrations. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. In order to access detailed and updated information on the license, please visit https:// www.openbookpublishers.com/product/800#copyright Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/ All external links were active 23/7/2018 unless otherwise stated and have been archived via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/web Updated digital material and resources associated with this volume are available at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/800#resources EISBN Paperback: 978-1-78374-511-1 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-78374-512-8 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-78374-513-5 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-78374-514-2 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-78374-515-9 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0144 Cover image: Portrait of Vasilii Florinskii by Vasilii Cheremin (1997). Photo courtesy of V. Puzyrev. Cover design by Corin Throsby. All paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) and Forest Stewardship Council(r)(FSC(r) certified. Printed in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK) To A.-E. and E. F. “Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli.” Terentianus Maurus, c. 2nd century CE Contents Preface xi List of Abbreviations xiii List of Illustrations xvii Note on Names, Transliterations, and Translations xxi Acknowledgments xxiii The Faces of Eugenics: Local Mirrors and Global Reflections 1 I. “HYGIENIC” AND “RATIONAL” MARRIAGE 23 1. The Author: Vasilii Florinskii 25 2. The Publisher: Grigorii Blagosvetlov 73 3. The Book: Darwinism and Social Hygiene 125 4. The Hereafter: Words and Deeds 183 II. “BOURGEOIS” AND “PROLETARIAN” EUGENICS 237 5. Rebirth: Eugenics and Marxism 239 6. Resonance: Euphenics, Medical Genetics, and 293 Rassenhygiene 7. Afterlife: Medical Genetics and “Racial” Eugenics 351 8. Science of the Future: With and Without Galton 409 Apologia: The Historian’s Craft 461 Notes 495 Index 655 Preface This book is an outgrowth of a project I have been pursuing on and off for nearly thirty years: a fully-fledged history of eugenics in Russia. I became interested in the subject at the very beginning of my career as a historian of science in the mid-1980s. Indeed, it was in one of my first public talks, delivered to a May 1989 conference on the social history of Russian science in Leningrad, that I first ventured into this peculiar history. But for the next two decades, numerous other topics captivated my attention and overshadowed this particular interest. Plus, during this very time several scholars in the Soviet Union, the United States, and elsewhere, most notably, Mark B. Adams in Philadelphia, Vasilii V. Babkov in Moscow, and Mikhail B. Konashev in St. Petersburg were publishing extensively on various aspects of that history, and I felt that I did not need to pursue it any further. Nevertheless, I kept reading on the history of eugenics worldwide and kept collecting whatever materials pertinent to the history of eugenics in Russia I would stumble upon in archives and libraries while going after other subjects. Eventually, I came to realize that the history of eugenics I wanted to write would differ substantially from the works produced by many others who have taken up the subject during the intervening years. So, I decided to actually do it. In 2010-2014, a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada enabled me to launch the project in earnest and to spend several months each year hunting for relevant materials in Russian archives, libraries, and museums. At first, I approached my subject in a rather conventional way. I studied the institutions, publications, patrons, methods, agendas, and practices of eugenics; followed individuals and various disciplinary and professional groups involved with its development; and explored its representations in contemporary journalism, literature, cinema, xii With and Without Galton and theater in Russia. The stacks of copies, notes, drafts, and plans for projected chapters steadily grew and soon threatened to completely overflow my modest home office and to turn my little project into a multi-volume edition of unmanageable length and undetermined duration. I began writing up (and occasionally publish) pieces and bits of a complex story that was slowly emerging out of the mountain of materials I have collected over the years. I would perhaps still be searching through the numerous nooks and crannies of this mountain, if it were not for a Guggenheim Fellowship that gave me a twelve-month leave in the 2015-2016 academic year. The wonderful freedom (from teaching, committees, and other delights of university life) afforded me a peace of mind to rethink my project and reshape it into something very different from what I had at first envisioned. Instead of writing a history of eugenics in Russia by going systematically through its institutional, intellectual, cultural, personal, disciplinary, political, ideological, and many other dimensions, I decided to experiment and to approach my subject from a decidedly different angle. In my explorations of various episodes in the history of eugenics in Russia, I noticed a recurrence of one particular book, Vasilii Florinskii’s Human Perfection and Degeneration. Originally published as a series of essays in 1865, it came out in book format less than a year later. For sixty years it lay dormant and apparently unread, but in 1926 it was reprinted and actively discussed. Yet, just a few years later, any references to its existence disappeared and resurfaced again only in the early 1970s. A new edition of the book came out a quarter of a century later, in 1995, and then — just as I was in Moscow doing my archival research — in 2012, it was republished once more. This seemed rather peculiar. Why would an obscure mid-nineteenth-century book be repeatedly revived and forgotten and revived again during nearly 150 years? Intrigued, I began going through my materials with a fine- tooth comb looking for clues. Soon I realized that the life story of this book — of its author, contents, publishers, editors, commentators, and readers — offers a unique lens to cast the history of eugenics in Russia in an unusual and very revealing light. In addition, a novel (for me) way to write a history of science by means of a “biography of a book” promised to be quite challenging and exciting. I hope the results do convey at least some of that excitement. St. Petersburg, 8 December 2017 List of Abbreviations AMN Akademiia medistinskikh nauk, Academy of Medical Sciences AN Akademiia nauk, Academy of Sciences APS American Philosophical Society ARAN Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences ARGB Archiv für Rassen- und Gesellschafts-Biologie [journal] ASMiOG Arkhiv sudebnoi meditsiny i obshchestvennoi gigieny, Archive of Legal Medicine and Social Hygiene [journal] BAN Biblioteka Akademii nauk, The Library of the Academy of Sciences BME Bol’shaia meditsinskaia entsikolpediia, Great Medical Encyclopedia
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Honorary Committee Scientific Committee Co-Chairs
    HONORARY COMMITTEE Vladimir KRUZHAEV (Vice-Rector for research & Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia) Vladimir BOGDANOV (Director of the Institute of Plant & Animal Ecology, UrB RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia) Co-Chairs Aleksandr BORODIN (IPAE UrB RAS and INS UrFU, Russia) Wim WESTERHOFF (INQUA-SEQS, Netherlands) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Philip GIBBARD (University of Cambridge, UK) Natalia GERASIMENKO (Institute of Geography, Kyiv, Ukraine) Jean-Pierre LEFORT (University of Rennes, France) Leszek MARKS (University of Warsaw, Poland) Wim WESTERHOFF (INQUA-SEQS, Netherlands) Markus FIEBIG (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria) Mauro COLTORTI (University of Siena, Italy) Thijs van KOLFSCHOTEN (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Alexey TESAKOV (Geological Institute RAS, Russia) Guzel DAnukALOVA (Institute of Geology Ufimian scientific Centre RAS, Russia) Aleksandr BORODIN (IPAE UrB RAS and INS UrFU, Russia) Nikolay SMIRNOV (IPAE UrB RAS, Russia) Yuriy LAVRUSHIN (Geological Institute RAS, Russia) Maria DERGACHEVA (Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry SB RAS, Russia) 1 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (orange Badge group) Aleksandr BORODIN Olga NEKRASOVA Nickolay EROKHIN Evgenia MARKOVA Maria FOMINYKH Sergey ZYKOV Petr SIBIRYAKOV Lidia YALKOVSKAYA Yulia KHRUNYK Olga NETUNAEVA Evgeniy IZVARIN Elena KUZMINA Tatyana STRUKOVA Svetlana TROFIMOVA Aleksey NEKRASOV Natalia POGODINA Anton UCHAEV Pavel KOSINTSEV Anatoliy ULITKO Viatcheslav GASILIN Dmitriy GIMRANOV Nata
    [Show full text]
  • Subject of the Russian Federation)
    How to use the Atlas The Atlas has two map sections The Main Section shows the location of Russia’s intact forest landscapes. The Thematic Section shows their tree species composition in two different ways. The legend is placed at the beginning of each set of maps. If you are looking for an area near a town or village Go to the Index on page 153 and find the alphabetical list of settlements by English name. The Cyrillic name is also given along with the map page number and coordinates (latitude and longitude) where it can be found. Capitals of regions and districts (raiony) are listed along with many other settlements, but only in the vicinity of intact forest landscapes. The reader should not expect to see a city like Moscow listed. Villages that are insufficiently known or very small are not listed and appear on the map only as nameless dots. If you are looking for an administrative region Go to the Index on page 185 and find the list of administrative regions. The numbers refer to the map on the inside back cover. Having found the region on this map, the reader will know which index map to use to search further. If you are looking for the big picture Go to the overview map on page 35. This map shows all of Russia’s Intact Forest Landscapes, along with the borders and Roman numerals of the five index maps. If you are looking for a certain part of Russia Find the appropriate index map. These show the borders of the detailed maps for different parts of the country.
    [Show full text]
  • Winter in the Urals 7 Mountain Ski Resort “Stozhok” Mountain Ski Resort “Stozhok” Is a Quiet and Comfortable Place for Winter Holidays
    WinterIN THE URALS The Government of Sverdlovsk Region mountain ski resorts The Ministry of Investment and Development of Sverdlovsk Region ecotourism “Tourism Development Centre of Sverdlovsk Region” 13, 8 Marta Str., entrance 3, 2nd fl oor Ekaterinburg, 620014 active tourism phone +7 (343) 350-05-25 leisure base wellness winter fi shing gotoural.соm ice rinks ski resort FREE TABLE OF CONTENTS MOUNTAIN SKI RESORTS 6-21 GORA BELAYA 6-7 STOZHOK 8 ISET 9 GORA VOLCHIHA 10-11 GORA PYLNAYA 12 GORA TYEPLAYA 13 GORA DOLGAYA 14-15 GORA LISTVENNAYA 16 SPORTCOMPLEX “UKTUS” 17 GORA YEZHOVAYA 18-19 GORA VORONINA 20 FLUS 21 ACTIVE TOURISM 22-23 ECOTOURISM 24-27 ACTIVE LEISURE 28-33 LEISURE BASE 34-35 WELLNESS 36-37 WINTER FISHING 38-39 NEW YEAR’S FESTIVITIES 40-41 ICE RINKS, SKI RESORT 42-43 WINTER EVENT CALENDAR 44-46 LEGEND address chair lift GPS coordinates surface lift website trail for mountain skis phone trail for running skis snowtubing MAP OF TOURIST SITES Losva 1 Severouralsk Khanty-Mansi Sosnovka Autonomous Okrug Krasnoturyinsk Karpinsk 18 Borovoy 31 Serov Kytlym Gari 2 Pavda Sosva Andryushino Tavda Novoselovo Verkhoturye Alexandrovskaya Raskat Kachkanar Tura Iksa 3 Verhnyaya Tura Tabory Perm Region Niznyaya Tura Kumaryinskoe Basyanovskiy Kushva Tagil Niznyaya Salda Turinsk 27 29 Verkhnyaya Salda Nitza 4 Nizhny Tagil 26 1 Niznyaya Sinyachikha Chernoistochinsk Visimo-Utkinsk Alapaevsk 7 Verkhnie Tavolgi Irbit Turinskaya Sloboda Ust-Utka Chusovaya Visim Aramashevo Artemovskiy Verkhniy Tagil Nevyansk Rezh 10 25 Chusovoe 2 Shalya 23 Novouralsk
    [Show full text]
  • Tussen Autonomie En Humaniteit Z1179revisie HE19 01-07-15 10:37 Pagina 2
    Z1179revisie_HE19 01-07-15 10:37 Pagina 1 Tussen autonomie en humaniteit Z1179revisie_HE19 01-07-15 10:37 Pagina 2 Aan Jana De theorie van opvoeding begin ik te begrijpen, nu de praktijk nog Z1179revisie_HE19 01-07-15 10:37 Pagina 3 Vincent Stolk Tussen autonomie en humaniteit De geschiedenis van levensbeschouwelijk humanisme in relatie tot opvoeding en onderwijs tussen 1850 en 1970 Humanistisch Erfgoed 19 HUMANISTISCH HISTORISCH CENTRUM PAPIEREN TIJGER Z1179revisie_HE19 01-07-15 10:37 Pagina 4 Dit boek kwam mede tot stand met ondersteuning van Centrum voor Humanisti- sche Vorming (HVO), Humanistisch Verbond, Stichting HVO Primair en De Vrije Gedachte. Afbeelding omslag: meisje tussen autonomie (F. Domela Nieuwenhuis) en huma- niteit (J.P. van Praag), door Milan Rijsdijk Vormgeving omslag: Marc Heijmans Boekverzorging: Zefier Tekstverwerking Drukwerk: CPI Koninklijke Wöhrmann © 2015 Vincent Stolk © 2015 Stichting Uitgeverij Papieren Tijger ISBN 978 90 6728 312 0 NUR 715 Alle rechten voorbehouden. Niets uit deze uitgave mag worden verveelvoudigd, opgeslagen in een geautomatiseerd gegevensbestand, of openbaar gemaakt, in eni- ge vorm of op enige wijze, hetzij elektronisch, mechanisch, door fotokopie of op andere manier, zonder voorafgaande schriftelijke toestemming van de uitgever. www.uvh.nl/humanistisch-historisch-centrum www.papierentijger.org Z1179revisie_HE19 01-07-15 10:37 Pagina 5 Tussen autonomie en humaniteit De geschiedenis van levensbeschouwelijk humanisme in relatie tot opvoeding en onderwijs tussen 1850 en 1970 Between autonomy and humanity The history of modern humanism in relation to education between 1850 and 1970 (with a Summary in English) Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek te Utrecht op gezag van de Rector Magnificus, prof.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Psychiatric Knowledge on the Soviet Periphery: Mental Health And
    Psychiatric knowledge on the Soviet periphery: mental health and disorder in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1948-1975 Sarah Victoria Marks UCL PhD History of Medicine 1 Plagiarism Statement I, Sarah Victoria Marks confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 2 Abstract This thesis traces the development of concepts and aetiologies of mental disorder in East Germany and Czechoslovakia under Communism, drawing on material from psychiatry and its allied disciplines, as well as discourses on mental health in the popular press and Party literature. I explore the transnational exchanges that shaped these concepts during the Cold War, including those with the USSR, China and other countries in the Soviet sphere of influence, as well as engagement with science from the 'West'. It challenges assumptions about the 'pavlovization' and top-down control of psychiatry, demonstrating that researchers were far from isolated from international developments, and were able to draw on a broad range of theoretical models (albeit providing they employed certain political or linguistic man). In turn, the flow of knowledge also occurred from the periphery to the centre. Rather than casting the history of psychiatry as one of the scientific community in opposition to the Party, I explore the methods individuals used to further their professional and personal interests, and examples of psychiatrists who engaged ± whether explicitly or reluctantly ± in the project of building socialism as a consequence. I also address broader questions about the history of psychiatry after 1945, a period which is still overshadowed in the literature by 19th century asylum studies and histories of psychoanalysis.
    [Show full text]
  • Science Versus Religion: the Influence of European Materialism on Turkish Thought, 1860-1960
    Science versus Religion: The Influence of European Materialism on Turkish Thought, 1860-1960 Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Serdar Poyraz, M.A. Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2010 Dissertation Committee: Carter V. Findley, Advisor Jane Hathaway Alan Beyerchen Copyright By Serdar Poyraz 2010 i Abstract My dissertation, entitled “Science versus Religion: The Influence of European Materialism on Turkish Thought, 1860-1960,” is a radical re-evaluation of the history of secularization in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. I argue that European vulgar materialist ideas put forward by nineteenth-century intellectuals and scientists such as Ludwig Büchner (1824-1899), Karl Vogt (1817-1895) and Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893) affected how Ottoman and Turkish intellectuals thought about religion and society, ultimately paving the way for the radical reforms of Kemal Atatürk and the strict secularism of the early Turkish Republic in the 1930s. In my dissertation, I challenge traditional scholarly accounts of Turkish modernization, notably those of Bernard Lewis and Niyazi Berkes, which portray the process as a Manichean struggle between modernity and tradition resulting in a linear process of secularization. On the basis of extensive research in modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Persian sources, I demonstrate that the ideas of such leading westernizing and secularizing thinkers as Münif Pasha (1830-1910), Beşir Fuad (1852-1887) and Baha Tevfik (1884-1914) who were inspired by European materialism provoked spirited religious, philosophical and literary responses from such conservative anti-materialist thinkers as Şehbenderzade ii Ahmed Hilmi (1865-1914), Said Nursi (1873-1960) and Ahmed Hamdi Tanpınar (1901- 1962).
    [Show full text]
  • UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title From Truth to Time: Soviet Central Television, 1957-1985 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2702x6wr Author Evans, Christine Elaine Publication Date 2010 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California From Truth to Time: Soviet Central Television, 1957-1985 By Christine Elaine Evans A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in Charge: Professor Yuri Slezkine, Chair Professor Victoria Frede Professor Olga Matich Spring 2010 From Truth to Time: Soviet Central Television, 1957-1985 © 2010 By Christine Elaine Evans Abstract From Truth to Time: Soviet Central Television, 1957-1985 by Christine Elaine Evans Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Professor Yuri Slezkine, Chair The Brezhnev era (1964-1982) was also the era of television. The First Channel of Moscow’s Central Television Studio began to reach all eleven Soviet time zones in the same years, 1965-1970, that marked the beginning of a new political era, the period of decline, corruption, and cynicism, but also stability, relative prosperity, and vibrant popular culture, that came to be called, retrospectively, the “era of stagnation.” Nearly all of the iconic images and sounds of this period were mediated by television: Brezhnev’s slurred speech and corpselike appearance, the singing of Iosif Kobzon and Alla Pugacheva, the parades and funerals on Red Square, and Olympic figure skating, to name just a few. Quotations and jokes drawn from specific TV movies and shows are ubiquitous in post-Soviet memoirs and the press.
    [Show full text]
  • SHEIKH (Somewhat Hard Examination of In-Depth Knowledge of History): "History Is a Nightmare from Which I Am Trying to Awake
    SHEIKH (Somewhat Hard Examination of In-Depth Knowledge of History): "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Writing this set isn’t helping." Questions by Will Alston and Jordan Brownstein Packet 1 1. Historians such as Howard Dorgan, who created an Encyclopedia of this region, tend to define it more narrowly than a federal agency which uses a definition of it based on economic performance, and which was created partly in response to Harry Caudill’s writings. Benton MacKaye popularized the idea of creating a landmark that connects most of this region. Inspired by reformers like Jane Addams, missionaries established “settlement schools” like Pine Mountain within this region to change its culture. Conflict with Quakers led to this region being largely settled by (*) Scotch-Irish immigrants, who developed a special type of dulcimer. As part of the Great Society, a federal Regional Commission was established to promote development in this region, where westward-moving settlers often passed through the Cumberland Gap. For 10 points, identify this U.S. cultural region from which bluegrass originated, which is traversed by a major mountain trail. ANSWER: Appalachia 2. In June 2009, this man’s family was awarded $15.5 million in a case brought in the U.S. under the Alien Tort Statute. After the murder of four chiefs, this man was arrested along with Paul Levera and seven others, with whom he formed an ethnic group’s “Nine.” This man wrote the memoir A Month and a Day recounting his detention by the government of Ibrahim Babangida. This leader of the (*) Movement of the Survival of the Ogoni People led protests against land degradation due to the policies of Royal Dutch Shell, which prompted the government of Sani Abacha to have him put on show trial.
    [Show full text]
  • Resolution # 784 of the Government of the Russian Federation Dated July
    Resolution # 784 of the Government of the Russian Federation dated July 17, 1998 On the List of Joint-Stock Companies Producing Goods (Products, Services) of Strategic Importance for Safeguarding National Security of the State with Federally-Owned Shares Not to Be Sold Ahead of Schedule (Incorporates changes and additions of August 7, August 14, October 31, November 14, December 18, 1998; February 27, August 30, September 3, September 9, October 16, December 31, 1999; March 16, October 19, 2001; and May 15, 2002) In connection with the Federal Law “On Privatization of State Property and Fundamental Principles of Privatizing Municipal Property in the Russian Federation”, and in accordance with paragraph 1 of Decree # 478 of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 11, 1995 “On Measures to Guarantee the Accommodation of Privatization Revenues in thee Federal Budget” (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 1995, # 20, page 1776; 1996, # 39, page 4531; 1997, # 5, page 658; # 20, page 2240), the Government of the Russian Federation has resolved: 1. To adopt the List of Joint-Stock Companies Producing Goods (Products, Services) of Strategic Importance for Safeguarding National Security of the State with Federally-Owned Shares Not to Be Sold Ahead of Schedule (attached). In accordance with Decree # 1514 of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 21, 2001, pending the adoption by the President of the Russian Federation in concordance with Article 6 of the Federal Law “On Privatization of State and Municipal Property” of lists of strategic enterprises and strategic joint-stock companies, changes and additions to the list of joint-stock companies adopted by this Resolution shall bee introduced by Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation issued on the basis of Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation.
    [Show full text]
  • The Upsurge of Irrationality. Post-Truth Politics for a Polarised World
    The upsurge of irrationality. Post-truth politics for a polarised world ANGELO FASCE ABSTRACT WORK TYPE Firstly, I summarise the current philosophical and psychological study of Article post-truth. Secondly, I discuss “white post-truth”, a still unattended form perceived as morally superior by many social actors and scholars. Thirdly, I ARTICLE HISTORY describe the kind of intergroup struggle that underlies the emergence and Received: spread of these non-standard epistemologies. 13–April–2019 Accepted: 10–June–2019 Published Online: 24–November–2019 ARTICLE LANGUAGE English/Spanish KEYWORDS Post-truth Polarization Unwarranted Beliefs Pseudoscience Science Denialism Intergroup Anxiety © Studia Humanitatis – Universidad de Salamanca 2020 A. Fasce (✉) Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin Universitat de València, Spain Vol. 9, No. 13, Jun. 2020, pp. 0-00 e-mail: [email protected] ISSN: 2254-0601 | www.disputatio.eu © The author(s) 2020. This work, published by Disputatio [www.disputatio.eu], is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [BY–NC–ND]. The copy, distribution and public communication of this work will be according to the copyright notice (https://disputatio.eu/info/copyright/). For inquiries and permissions, please email: (✉) [email protected]. 2 | ANGELO FASCE The upsurge of irrationality. Post-truth politics for a polarised world ANGELO FASCE URRENT SOCIAL POLARISATION has led to an upsurge of collective irrationality in which formerly underground unwarranted beliefs and C radical discourses have become mainstream. Therefore, intergroup struggles often goes one step further than the typical axiological level, so controverted shared values have been replaced by alternative epistemologies shaped by identity-related empirical misconceptions that are at the core of current cases of “culture war” (Kahan, Braman, Slovic, Gastil, & Cohen, 2007).
    [Show full text]
  • With and Without Galton Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia
    With and Without Galton Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia Nikolai Krementsov Publisher: Open Book Publishers Year of publication: 2018 Published on OpenEdition Books: 21 March 2019 Serie: OBP collection Electronic ISBN: 9791036525063 http://books.openedition.org Printed version ISBN: 9781783745111 Number of pages: xxvi + 668 Electronic reference KREMENTSOV, Nikolai. With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia. New edition [online]. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2018 (generated 04 mai 2019). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/obp/7333>. ISBN: 9791036525063. © Open Book Publishers, 2018 Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported - CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 WITH AND WITHOUT GALTON About the Publisher Open Book Publishers is a not-for-profit, scholar-led Open Access academic press and we are dedicated to revolutionising academic publishing, breaking down the barriers of high prices and restricted circulation so that outstanding academic books are available for everyone to read and share. If you believe that knowledge should be available to everyone, you can support our work with a monthly pledge or a one-off donation and become part of the OBP community: https://www.openbookpublish/pledge About the Author Nikolai Krementsov is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (Canada). He has published several monographs and numerous articles on various facets of the history of science, medicine, and literature in Russia and the Soviet Union. His latest publications include A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science (2011), Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in the Bolshevik Science and Fiction (2014), and The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon (2017), 2 vols.
    [Show full text]
  • Iurii Olesha, Abram Room and Strogii Iunosha-Artistic Form and Political
    lURn OLESHA, ABRAM ROOM AND STROGII lUNOSHA - ARTISTIC FORM AND POLITICAL CONTEXT Milena Lily Michalski School of Slavonic and East European Studies Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of PhD 1999 ProQuest Number: U118707 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest. ProQuest U118707 Published by ProQuest LLC(2015). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 ABSTRACT Strogii iunosha was a unique experiment to create a new art form, conceived by the author lurii Olesha and developed by him and the director Abram Room. It was intended to be, at once, a literary and a cinematic work of art. Room's film was banned, but Olesha's written version was not. Analysis of previously unconsidered production notebooks for the film Strogii iunosha reveals the reason for this. Other scholars have suggested that the change in the prevailing political atmosphere between 1934 and 1936 on the one hand, or the effects o f the differences in the natures of literature and cinema on the other, explain why the film was banned, yet the scenario was not.
    [Show full text]