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Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction Krementsov, Nikolai (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction
Krementsov, Nikolai (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Toronto)
This book examines the transformation of specialized biomedical knowledge into an influential cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-fiction stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old dream of immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik Russia.
416 pages, Illustrationsstrations (black and white)
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 31, 2013 |
| Original release date | 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199992980 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 244 × 18 mm · 521 g |
| Language | English |