State of Madness : : Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin / / Rebecca Reich.
What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize...
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