Russia in the Time of Cholera
Title | Russia in the Time of Cholera PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Davis |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018-03-09 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 178673365X |
As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing as evidence imperial mismanagement, a `backward' tsarist medical system and physicians' anachronistic environmental interpretations of the disease. Drawing on extensive archival research and the so-called `material turn' in historiography, however, John P. Davis here demonstrates that Romanov-era physicians' environmental approach to disease was not ill-grounded, nor a consequence of neo-liberal or populist political leanings, but born of pragmatic scientific considerations. The physicians confronted cholera in a broad and sophisticated way, essentially laying the foundations for the system of public health that the Soviets successfully used to defeat cholera during the New Economic Policy (1922-1928). By focusing for the first time on the conclusion of the cholera epoch in Russia, Davis adds an indispensable layer of nuance to the existing conception of Romanov Russia and its complicated legacy in the Soviet period.
The Cholera Epidemic of 1892 in the Russian Empire
Title | The Cholera Epidemic of 1892 in the Russian Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gerard Clemow |
Publisher | St. Petersburg, K.L. Rikker |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Cholera |
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History of the Epidemic Spasmodic Cholera of Russia
Title | History of the Epidemic Spasmodic Cholera of Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Bisset Hawkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1831 |
Genre | Cholera |
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A bound-with of five works on cholera in Russia
Title | A bound-with of five works on cholera in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1831 |
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Russia and the Cholera
Title | Russia and the Cholera PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gerard Clemow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1894 |
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The Cholera Epidemic of 1892 in the Russian Empire
Title | The Cholera Epidemic of 1892 in the Russian Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gerard Clemow |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783337172107 |
The Struggle with Cholera in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1892-1927
Title | The Struggle with Cholera in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1892-1927 PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 2012 |
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