The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State

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THE BODY OVlet Propaganda) Hygiene) and the ,%volutionary State TRICIA STARKS THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS This book was published with the support of the History Department, the Graduate School, and the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, all at the University of Arkansas. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 537II-2059 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3Henrietta Street London WC2E 8w, England Copyright © 2008 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or aWeb site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 4 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Starks, Tricia, 1969The body Soviet: propaganda, hygiene, and the revolutionary state / Tricia Starks. p. cm. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D,)-Ohio State University, 1999. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-22960-3 (cloth: alk paper)-ISBN 978-0-299-22964-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Soviets (People)-Health and hygiene. 2. Hygiene-Political aspects-Soviet Union. 3. Public health-Political aspects-Soviet Union. 4. Propaganda, CommunistSoviet Union. LTitle. RA395.s65S72 2008 362.1089'917-dC22 20080II972 An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as "A Revolutionary Home: Housekeeping and Social Duty in the 1920S;' Revolutionary Russia 17, no. I (2004): 69-104; reprinted with the permission ofTaylor and Francis Group (www.informaworld.com). An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as "A Fertile Mother Russia: Pro-Natalist Propaganda in Revolutionary Russia;' The Journal ifFamily History 28, no. 3 (2003): 4II-42; reprinted with the permission of Sage Publications. TO my parents ...