Resource Tag: RUSSIA

The author discusses Marx’s sociological-cum-ethical review essay on suicide in the context of his views on crime & punishment, women, money, & the medical profession.

The authors traces Mayakovsky’s poetic career by tracing the recurring theme of time in his poetry. In particular, the author focuses on Mayakovsky’s relationship with the future, which at first was confident, but which suffered a series of breaks in 1920s Communist Russia, & eventually culminated in his own suicide in 1930.

This document reviews the book by D Vagero et al, which focuses on a unique archival find – the 1913 lost essay “Suicide as a Social Phenomenon,” by the well-known sociologist, P Sorokin. The reviewer recommends this book, & especially a reading of Sorokin’s essay itself, to every person interested in historical suicidology. He also […]

The authors investigated trends in Russian mortality for 1991-2001 with particular reference to trends since the Russian economic crisis in 1998, after which mortality was found to have increased substantially. Most fluctuations were due to changes in mortality from vascular disease & violent deaths (including suicide) among young & middle aged adults. Trends were similar […]

Crisis counselling by means of letters written from the client to the counsellor & back is discussed. An example is presented of counselling a suicidal adolescent using this technique. (11 refs.)

This is an excerpt from Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina. In this excerpt, Anna reflects miserably that her husband does not love her with the passion in which she loves him. She wanders confusedly through a train-station, then remembers a man who threw himself in front of a train. She decides to do the same. She […]

This article reviews the suicide rates in some of the former USSR republics and does a historical review of suicide in the USSR from the Kruschev era to the present.

This article compares the mass suicide of the People’s Temple followers at Jonestown in Guyana in November, 1978, with the suicidal activities of the Russian “Old Believers” in the late seventeenth & early eighteenth centuries. A short review of the Great Schism in the Russian Orthodox Church is provided, followed by a summary discussion of […]