Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia /

In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This 2007 book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanin...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Morrissey, Susan K., 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 9.
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