![1905 [Nineteen hundred and five] in St. Petersburg](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/0804714991-M.jpg?default=false)
"In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system - a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it."--J…
States of crisis -- Assembling narcology -- Selling sobriety -- Prostheses for the will -- Rehabilitation from abroad "Critics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relat…
St. Petersburg: from space of representation to embattled public sphere -- Nihilism: self-fashioning and subculture in the city -- Underground pioneers -- To the people and back -- City synergy -- Organized troglodytes: building up the underground -- Battleground Petersburg -- T…
