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Imperial Normativities and the Sciences of the Child: The Politics of Development in the USSR, 1920s-1930s (2016)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2016). Imperial Normativities and the Sciences of the Child: The Politics of Development in the USSR, 1920s-1930s. Ab imperio, 2016(2), 71-124. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2016.0031

Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1930s, Soviet researchers in child biopsychosocial development became especially interested in the question of ethnoracial differences in the Soviet child population. During the First Five-Year Plan a specialist suba... Read More about Imperial Normativities and the Sciences of the Child: The Politics of Development in the USSR, 1920s-1930s.

Trauma and Pathology: Normative Crises and the Child Population in Late Tsarist Russia and the Early Soviet Union, 1904-1924 (2016)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2016). Trauma and Pathology: Normative Crises and the Child Population in Late Tsarist Russia and the Early Soviet Union, 1904-1924. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 9(3), 450-469. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2016.0070

Focusing on the major sociopolitical upheavals of the first quarter of the twentieth century in Russia, this article examines the key contexts in which children became objects of mass intervention in the midst and aftermath of a succession of wars an... Read More about Trauma and Pathology: Normative Crises and the Child Population in Late Tsarist Russia and the Early Soviet Union, 1904-1924.

Sozdavaia "modernost"' = Doing "Modernity" (2016)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2016). Sozdavaia "modernost"' = Doing "Modernity". Новое литературное обозрение. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 140(4), 65-67

Foucault and La Boétie (2016)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. D. (2016). Foucault and La Boétie. Storia del pensiero politico, 5(2), 241-259. https://doi.org/10.4479/84206

Explicit references to Étienne de La Boétie are almost entirely absent from Michel Foucault's works. This paper considers the potential reasons for the absence of the "Discours de la servitude volontaire from Foucault's meditations" on governmentalit... Read More about Foucault and La Boétie.

A systemic centenary of Russian poetic translation (2016)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S. (2016). A systemic centenary of Russian poetic translation. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 3(2), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2016.1184499

This article analyses systemic properties of Russian poetic translation as exemplified by the online collection Vek perevoda [A Century of Translation]. The compiler of the collection, the poet and translator Evgenii Vitkovskii (Witkowsky), describes... Read More about A systemic centenary of Russian poetic translation.

Venice (2016)
Book Chapter
Sunderland, L. (2016). Venice. In D. Wallace (Ed.), Europe : a literary history, 1348-1418 (486-501). Oxford University Press

Vsemirnaia Literatura: intersections between translating and original literary writing (2016)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S. (2016). Vsemirnaia Literatura: intersections between translating and original literary writing. Slavic and East European journal, 60(1), 8-21

In this article, the early Soviet translation project Vsemirnaia Literatura (1918–1924) will be analyzed from the point of view of the sociology of professions as applied to translation studies. The Vsemirnaia-Literatura project was initiated as a me... Read More about Vsemirnaia Literatura: intersections between translating and original literary writing.

V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s-1920s: “Objective Psychology” / “Reflexology” as a Scientific Movement (2016)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2016). V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s-1920s: “Objective Psychology” / “Reflexology” as a Scientific Movement. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 52(2), 99-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21775

In the early 20th century the child population became a major focus of scientific, professional and public interest. This led to the crystallization of a dynamic field of child science, encompassing developmental and educational psychology, child psy... Read More about V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s-1920s: “Objective Psychology” / “Reflexology” as a Scientific Movement.

Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2016). Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature. French Studies, 70(2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knw004

Medieval libraries are studied as collections of books, but much less frequently as collections of ideas. They are somewhat neglected by literary scholars, who tend to define the parameters of their studies in terms of authors, genres, themes, tradit... Read More about Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature.