 | The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in fin-de-Siecle Russia Subjects: Sex customs -- Soviet Union -- History -- 19th century; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1801–1917; Soviet Union -- Moral conditions; The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances... Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of History at Yale University. She is author of Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale and coeditor, with Stephanie Sandler, of Self and Story in Russian History , both from Cornell. |
