1st Edition
Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941 Protecting the Collective
By Christopher Williams
Copyright 2018
334 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
334 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
334 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In the first book to chart late Imperial and Soviet health policy and its impact on the health of the collective in Russia’s former capital and second "regime" city, Christopher Williams argues that in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg radical sections of the medical profession and the Bolsheviks highlighted the local and Tsarist government’s failure to protect the health of poor peasants and the... Read more
Introduction
1. The "Body Russian" in Tsarist St. Petersburg
2. The Health of the Petrograd Collective Under War Communism, 1918-20
3. Health, Class and the Market Under N.E.P., 1921-27
4. Health Plans, Medical Disorder and Repression: The Health of the Collective in Crisis, 1928-41
Conclusion
Biography
Christopher Williams is former head of the Department of History and Politics and former Professor of Modern History at Liverpool Hope University, UK.
