Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century: Fearing for the Nation

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Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Joachim von Puttkamer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

Fearing for the Nation

Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Joachim von Puttkamer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Immo Rebitschek (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

General & world history; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Population & demography

Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.

The cataclysms of imperial collapse, World War(s) and the Holocaust but also the rise of state socialism after 1945 provided extraordinary and distinct conditions for the governing of life and death. The volume collects the latest research and empirical studies from the region to showcase the diversity of biopolitical regimes in their regional and global context – from hunger relief for Hungarian children after the First World War to abortion legislation in communist Poland. It underlines the similarities as well, demonstrating how biopolitical strategies in this area often revolved around the notion of an endangered nation; and how ideological schemes and post-imperial experiences in Eastern Europe further complicate a 'western' understanding of democratic participatory and authoritarian repressive biopolitics.

The new geographical focus invites scholars and students of social and human sciences to reconsider established perspectives on the history of population management and the history of Europe.

Edited by: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Jagiellonian University Poland), Joachim von Puttkamer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Immo Rebitschek (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367751241
ISBN 10: 0367751240
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barbara Klich-Kluczewska is an Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and a cultural historian of twentieth-century Poland. Her fields of research include history of family, history of sexuality and gender, biopolitics and history of experts’ knowledge. Joachim von Puttkamer is Director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His research focusses on nationalism and statehood in modern Central and Eastern Europe. Immo Rebitschek is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Eastern European History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has published widely on the history of the Soviet procuracy in Stalinist Russia and is currently focussing his research on the history of famines in the late Russian empire.