TY - BOOK ID - 77896821 TI - Homo imperii : a history of physical anthropology in Russia PY - 2013 SN - 080324603X 9780803246034 9780803239784 0803239785 1496210816 1299559468 9781299559462 PB - Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, DB - UniCat KW - Physical anthropology KW - Biological anthropology KW - Somatology KW - Anthropology KW - Human biology KW - History KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896821 AB - It is widely assumed that the "non-classical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "non-classical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in pre-revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism. By ER -