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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.

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

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.

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.