… During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological … that
such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng …

… , Yinghong Cheng sets out to examine three social-engineered cases of creating the “New
Man” … By linking such attempts with the ideals rooted in the European Enlightenment tradition …

Cambridge University Press. 2007. xii+ 406pp.£ 15.99. The study, and teaching, of African
history can feel like a Herculean endeavour: fifty-three nation-states, hundreds of millions of …

… new man. This estranged intellectual elite, expelled from politics by the tsarist regime, was
heavily influenced by Enlightenment ideas… socialist consciousness on the historical reality and …

… creating the new man, and how national and cultural traditions were reflected in the Utopian
goal of creating the new man… revolutionary new man to a compromised communist new man …

… modern phase of cultural enlightenment, social mobilization, … , Cheng Yinghong’s definition
of the socialist new man is a … to reality…It is essential to take the words which make up this …

… of the Chinese peasantry – to create (as in Russia) a ‘Socialist New Man’.Footnote24 More
… Soviet ideal of the ‘Socialist New Man’ but also the aura of Stalinist exuberance or idealistic …

… the campaigns to create the “Soviet new man” in the former USSR and the “socialist new
man” in … Most existing studies on the making of socialist new people in China and elsewhere, …

… as an objective reality but as a form of faction, of fictionalised reality. It … created at the time,
everybody seemed ready to join the enormous effort that was required to create a new socialist …

… the state’s agenda of making new socialist citizens. The ideals promoted in the new guidebooks
… writing subjects—the modern, Enlightenment ideal that Republican diary instructors had …