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- SOVIET RURAL HEALTHCARE IN THE LATE 1920S – THE 2ND HALF OF THE 1930S IN THE WORK OF WESTERN AND DOMESTIC OBSERVERS
- Khristenko D.N. Soviet rural healthcare in the late 1920s – the 2nd half of the 1930s in the work of Western and domestic observers. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2024, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 18–24 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998- 0817-2024-30-4-18-24
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-4-18-24
- УДК: 94(470)”1920”:61
- EDN: LQOZKM
- Publish date: 2024-11-12
- Annotation: This article describes the development of healthcare in the Soviet village in the late 1920s – the 2nd half of the 1930s. Topicality of the study stems from the need to fill one of the serious gaps in the study of the agrarian history of Russia by turning to the little-studied document base based on the testimony of Soviet and foreign observers. The study of these materials allows us to examine in detail the key points of creating rural healthcare system in the Soviet Union practically from scratch. Foreign eyewitnesses claimed a real social achievement in medical care for the peasantry, which was confirmed by domestic eyewitnesses. Particularly important are the observations of the American physician and medical historian Henry Ernest Sigerist, who argued about the formation of a special philosophical model of public health in the USSR, forming the basis of Soviet healthcare.
- Keywords: Joseph Stalin, USSR, medicine, rural healthcare, foreigners, image of USSR, progress, modernisation
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