World history of aging: from antiquity to modernity
Keywords:
old age, demographic aging, representations, modernization, medicalization, gerontology, global contextAbstract
The paper presents some reflections on the problem of old age raised by David Troyansky in the book «Aging in World History» (Themes in World History). Aging of population has become an issue of worldwide concern, a challenge to the society, authorities, and social support system, but it also opened new possibilities for the elderly. The old age experience has become the norm. It strengthened the interest to the history of old age that leads to the studies of what the aging ways were in past; what people could expect in their later years; how they represented old age, and how other people represented it; what traditional representations of the elderly continue to shape people’s lives; how to avoid concerns and fears dedicating to natural aging; whether society is ready to confirm a changing role, needs and possibilities of elderly people. Historiography’s discussions, methods and approaches to the history of old age are considered. The main theme sections and research issues of the analyzed book are defined. The literature on the Soviet history of old age is examined shortly.doi: 10.17072/2219-3111-2017-1-189-197References
Примечания
Публикация подготовлена в рамках поддержанного РГНФ научного проекта № 15-11-59003.
Рамки статьи не позволяют упомянуть всех авторов и их работы, на которых основывается обзор Троянски. Приведем лишь некоторые из них: Cole T. The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America. Cambridge,
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Lindenmeyr A. Work, Charity, and the Elderly in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia// Old Age in Preindustrial Society. New York, 1982; Velkoff V., Kinsella K. Aging in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. 1993.
В 2005 г. вышел специальный выпуск журнала «Отечественные записки» (№ 3 (24)) под названием «Стареть по-русски», посвященный культурным, экономическим, демографическим аспектам старения в России и за рубежом.
Edele M. Soviet Veterans of World War II: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian State, 1941–1991. Oxford,
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Библиографический список
Troyansky D. Aging in World History (Themes in World History). New York, London: Routledge, 2016. 152 р.
Thane P. Social Histories of Old Age and Aging// Journal of Social History. 2003. № 37. P. 93–111.
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References
Harris, S. (2005), “We Too Want to Live in Normal Apartments: Soviet Mass Housing and the Marginalization of the Elderly under Khrushchev and Brezhnev”, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, № 2–3 (32), pp. 143-174.
Lovell, S. (2003), “Soviet Socialism and the Construction of Old Age”, Jahrbucher für Geschichte Osteuropas, № 4 (51), pp. 564–585.
Lovell, S. (2007), “Introduction”, in Generations in Twentieth Century Europe, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 1-18.
Lovell, S. (2007), “Soviet Russia’s Older Generations”, in Generations in Twentieth Century Europe, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 205–226.
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Troyansky, D. (2016), Aging in World History (Themes in World History), Routledge, New York, London, 152 р.
