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Realizing that some prejudices have changed little over the centuries, Engelstein cautions that ""we must not cast the shadow of our own distress on the story of the Skoptsy. Their physical suffering was something they willingly embraced"".

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Laura Engelstein has produced a rather spectacular second book on sex in Russia. . . Engelstein's new book on the topic of sex in Russia is much more complex and much more likely to be entered into the ranks of required books for all student of history. . . It is an extraordinary account of the 'archive' that she mines in order to tell their history. . . Cornell University Press is to be commended for designing this book so that the images and the text work elegantly together. -Sander L. Gilman, American Historical Review, December 2000

Laura Engelstein has produced a rather spectacular second book on sex in Russia. . . Engelstein's new book on the topic of sex in Russia is much more complex and much more likely to be entered into the ranks of required books for all student of history. . . It is an extraordinary account of the 'archive' that she mines in order to tell their history. . . Cornell University Press is to be commended for designing this book so that the images and the text work elegantly together. Sander L. Gilman, American Historical Review, December 2000

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Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of History at Yale University. She is author of The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Si'cle Russia and coeditor, with Stephanie Sandler, of Self and Story in Russian History, both from Cornell.

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