'A fascinating study. Prozorov is not only one of the most interesting scholars of twentieth and twenty-first century Russia, he's also able to engage with high theory in a readable and entertaining manner.'Bill Bowring, Birkbeck School of Law, University of LondonThe first book to investigate Soviet socialism from a biopolitical perspectiveIn contrast to Western rationalities of biopolitics, Soviet biopolitics was oriented less towards protecting life than towards transforming it in accordance with the communist ideal. In this book, Sergei Prozorov traces the emergence of the Soviet biopolitical project during the period of the Great Break (1928-32) and its subsequent modifications during High Stalinism. He then relocates the question of biopolitics down to the level of the subject, tracing the way the 'new Soviet person' was to be produced in governmental practices and the role violence and terror played in this construction. The Biopolitics of Stalinism is critically engaged with the canonical works of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, as well as the 'new materialist' theories of Michel Henry, Quentin Meillassoux and Catherine Malabou.Sergei Prozorov is a University Lecturer in World Politics at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki. He is the author of six monographs, the most recent being Agamben and Politics, also published by Edinburgh University Press (2014).Cover image: Memorial to The Holodomor Victims in Kyiv © Natandri/Dreamstime.comCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.comISBN (cover): 978-1-4744-1053-3ISBN (PPC): 978-1-4744-1052-6Barcode
