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This volume deepens and complicates our understanding of the Soviet project of transforming human nature to create a “new man.” ... [Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc] will be of interest not only to scholars engaged with the history of psychology, medicine, and disability, but also to those focused more broadly on the cultural and social history of communism. * The Russian Review *

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Anna Toropova is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the author of Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre and the Politics of Affect under Stalin (2020). Her articles on Soviet cinema, biopolitics, medicine and spectatorship have been published in Slavic Review, The Russian Review, and JCH. Claire Shaw is Associate Professor in the History of Modern Russia at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 (2017). Her articles on deafness, disability and urban space have been published in Slavic Review, SEER, and Urban History.

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