Book ID: CBB001451896

Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction (2014)

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Krementsov, N. L. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiii + 268 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Literature and science -- Soviet Union. Biology -- Soviet Union -- Experiments. Immortality in literature. Biology in literature. Science fiction, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Medicine in Literature. Unsterblichkeit. Biologie. Wissenschaft. Biowissenschaften. Russisch. Literatur. Biology -- Experiments. Biology in literature. Immortality in literature. Literature and science. Science fiction, Russian. Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc. Time: 1900 - 1999 Geographic: Sowjetunion. Soviet Union. Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index. Class Descriptors: LC: PG3026.S348; Dewey: 891.709/356 Responsibility: Nikolai Krementsov. Vendor Info: YBP Library Services Coutts Information Services Ingram (YANK COUT ING

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Authors & Contributors
Erlingsson, Steindór J.
Alexandrov, Daniel A.
Aronova, Elena
Esposito, Maurizio
Gall, Yasha M.
Gliboff, Sander Joel
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Publishers
Firenze University Press
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Experimental biology
Biology
Science and literature
Science and politics
Zoology
Discipline formation
People
Crew, Francis Albert Eley
Freud, Sigmund
Kammerer, Paul
Leduc, Stéphane
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Reich, Wilhelm
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Modern
Places
Russia
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Great Britain)
Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain)
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