Frances Lee Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Drew University.

A valuable contribution.... will be of interest to a number of audiences—from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine.(Canadian Journal of History) Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive.(The Russian Review) Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public.(Slavic Review) Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment—in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations—in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child.(Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1: Disciplining the Sex Question in Revolutionary Russia2: Making Sex3: "Nervous People"4: Envisioning Health5: Conserving Soviet Power6: Doctors without BoudoirsConclusionAbbreviations ListNotesBibliographyIndex

Frances Lee Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Drew University.

A valuable contribution.... will be of interest to a number of audiences—from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine.(Canadian Journal of History) Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive.(The Russian Review) Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public.(Slavic Review) Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment—in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations—in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child.(Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1: Disciplining the Sex Question in Revolutionary Russia2: Making Sex3: "Nervous People"4: Envisioning Health5: Conserving Soviet Power6: Doctors without BoudoirsConclusionAbbreviations ListNotesBibliographyIndex

Frances Lee Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Drew University.

A valuable contribution.... will be of interest to a number of audiences—from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine.(Canadian Journal of History) Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive.(The Russian Review) Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public.(Slavic Review) Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment—in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations—in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child.(Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1: Disciplining the Sex Question in Revolutionary Russia2: Making Sex3: "Nervous People"4: Envisioning Health5: Conserving Soviet Power6: Doctors without BoudoirsConclusionAbbreviations ListNotesBibliographyIndex