The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-De-Siecle Russia

by Laura Engelstein

Book Overview

The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances, in the staid assemblies of physicians, psychiatrists, and legal men--the talk everywhere was of sex. This eagerly awaited book, echoing the title of a pre-World War I bestseller, The Keys...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801499585
• ISBN13: 9780801499586
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher