Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

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Andy Byford (Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham)

Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

Andy Byford (Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham)

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English

Oxford University Press
12 March 2020

European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Russian Revolution; History of science

Between the 1880s and the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide, including in the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union. Those who claimed children as special objects of investigation were initially spread across a network of imperfectly professionalized scholarly and occupational groups based mostly in the fields of medicine, education, and psychology. From their various perspectives, they made ambitious claims about the contributions that their emergent expertise made to the understanding of, and intervention in, human bio-psycho-social development. The international movement that arose out of this catalyzed the institutionalization of new domains of knowledge, including developmental and educational psychology, special needs education, and child psychiatry.

Science of the Child charts the evolution of the child science movement in Russia from the Crimean War to the Second World War. It is the first comprehensive history in English of the rise and fall of this multidisciplinary field across the late Imperial and Soviet periods. Drawing on ideas and concepts emanating from a variety of theoretical domains, the study provides new insights into the concerns of Russia's professional intelligentsia with matters of biosocial reproduction and investigates the incorporation of scientific knowledge and professional expertise focused on child development into the making of the welfare/warfare state in the rapidly changing political landscape of the early Soviet era.

By: Andy Byford (Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Durham)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198825050
ISBN 10: 0198825056
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 12 March 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andy Byford is Professor of Russian at Durham University. He has published extensively on the history of the humanities academia, human sciences, medicine, education, and related professions in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia.

Reviews for Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

Pedology as the Science of the Child is essential to understand the history of education in the late Russian Empire and the first decades of the USSR, but also the evolution of state policies towards childhood, child education, and the future that children embodied. * Petru Negură, Rezensionen *