Professor%20Dan%20Healey: List of publications

Reviews the use of Soviet-era diaries in current historiography and discussions about their strengths and weaknesses. Offers an example of close reading of the diary of homosexual popular singer Vadim Kozin.

Russian forensic psychiatry is defined by its troubled and troubling relationship to an unstable state, a state that was not a continuous entity during the modern era. From the mid-nineteenth century, Russia as a nation-state struggled to reform, collapsed, re-constituted itself in a bloody civil war, metastasized into a violent “totalitarian” regime, reformed and stagnated under “mature socialism” and then embraced capitalism and “managed democracy” at the end of the twentieth century. These upheavals had indelible effects on policing and the administration of justice, and on psychiatry's relationship with them. In Russia, physicians specializing in medicine of the mind had to cope with rapid and radical changes of legal and institutional forms, and sometimes, of the state itself. Despite this challenging environment, psychiatrists showed themselves to be active professionals seeking to guide the transformations that inevitably touched their work. In the second half of the nineteenth century debates about the role of psychiatry in criminal justice took place against a backdrop of increasingly alarming terrorist activity, and call for revolution. While German influence, with its preference for hereditarianism, was strong, Russian psychiatry was inclined toward social and environmental explanations of crime. When revolution came in 1917, the new communist regime quickly institutionalized forensic psychiatry. In the aftermath of revolution, the institutionalization of forensic psychiatry “advanced” with each turn of the state's transformation, with profound consequences for practitioners' independence and ethical probity. The abuses of Soviet psychiatry under Stalin and more intensively after his death in the 1960s–80s remain under-researched and key archives are still classified. The return to democracy since the late 1980s has seen mixed results for fresh attempts to reform both the justice system and forensic psychiatric practice.

In this concluding chapter, I shall draw on the results reported in the six national chapters and ask if they collectively provide some cohe research questions set out in Chapter 1. Let me begin by restating the nature of our comparative enterprise. Unlike cross-national comparative research on social mobility, educational inequality, or other more established topics, social stratification of cultural consumption is still a relatively underdeveloped field. This means that the data sets that are available to us, and measures of cultural consumption contained therein, are not as standardised as we would have liked. As a result, we could not have carried out exactly the same analysis in all six nations. Instead, we have sought to achieve cross-national comparability by addressing the same set of research questions, and to do so within a shared conceptual framework. We have two main goals. Our first goal is to further our knowledge of the social stratification of cultural consumption in contemporary societies. In particular, we wish to evaluate three competing sets of arguments which purport to describe how cultural consumption is, or is not, mapped onto the stratification order. Following Warde et al. (2000), we have labelled these as ‘homology’ arguments, ‘individualisation’ arguments and ‘omnivore–univore’ arguments respectively. Our second goal is to bring cultural consumption research closer to mainstream stratification research. This means specifying more carefully the manner in which cultural consumption is stratified. In this regard, we are especially interested in exploring the relevance of Max Weber's distinction between social class and social status.

Thanks to the opening of archives and the forging of exchanges between Russian and Western scholars interested in the history of medicine, it is now possible to write new forms of social and political history in the Soviet medical field. Using the lenses of critical social histories of healthcare and medical science, and looking at both new material from Russian archives and interviews with those who experienced the Soviet health system, the contributors to this volume explore the ways experts and the Soviet state radically reshaped medical provision after the Revolution of 1917. Soviet Medicine presents the work of an international group of leading scholars. Twelve essays—treating subjects that span the 74-year history of the Soviet Union—cover such diverse topics as how epidemiologists handled plague on the Soviet borderlands in the revolutionary era, how venereologists fighting sexually transmitted disease struggled to preserve the patient’s right to secrecy, and how Soviet forensic experts falsified the evidence of the Katyñ Forest massacre of 1940. Contributing authors also examine such subjects as innovation in Soviet public health, medical expertise and the 1946–47 famine, and industrial toxins under Khrushchev. This important volume demonstrates the crucial role played by medical science, practice, and culture in the shaping of a modern Soviet Union. Soviet Medicine will appeal to historians of medicine, science, the Soviet Union, and social and gender historians.

Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by myths of Russian fatalism and submission as well as by the very real powers of the Stalinist state are startled by the dimensions of popular resistance under Stalin.

From the romantic liaisons of Peter the Great to the birth of the Russian 'queen', this collection of essays presents recent research from the new field of Russian masculinity studies. Peasant patriarchs, aristocratic dandies, anxious young bureaucrats, workers in search of father figures, heroic warriors, promiscuous bathhouse attendants and vodka-soaked athletic stars populate this volume. Its essays take as a starting point the notion that masculinity, like femininity, has a history.