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Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union

This panel brings together new approaches to the history of health, the body and the mind in the USSR. Anna Toropova will examine film and Soviet psychiatry during the 1920s-1930s; Hannah Proctor will discuss Western perspectives on Soviet minds and bodies; and Claire Shaw will explore the concept of physical diversity under Stalinism.

‘The Fullness and Richness of “Man Himself”’: Diversity of the Body in the Stalin Era
Sun2 Apr11:00am(20 mins)			Claire Shaw
Stream : Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Room: Senate Room

Cinema, Psychiatry and the Neurological Gaze in the Early Soviet Union
Sun2 Apr11:20am(20 mins)			Anna Toropova
Stream : Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Room: Senate Room

Swaddled minds: ‘National character’, Soviet babies and authority in ‘The People of Great Russia’ (1949)
Sun2 Apr11:40am(20 mins)			Hannah Proctor
Stream : Perspectives on Health, the Body and the Mind in the Soviet Union
Room: Senate Room

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