Nursing and the Public Health Legacies of the Russian Revolution

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ID11034151
AuthorsSusan Grant (0000-0003-0983-037X, Susan Grant is with the School of Humanities and Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK., corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume107
Issue11
Pages1725-1730
Publication date2017-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2017.304078
PMID28933928
OpenAlexW2757282211
LanguageEN
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The centenary of the October Revolution in 1917 provides a timely opportunity to assess the legacies of that event. I examine the role of the revolution in public health with a focus on nursing, assessing the Imperial Russian health care system, the development of Soviet nursing, and current plans for nursing and public health care in Putin’s Russia. Analyzing nursing shows that there was a great deal of continuity in terms of medical personnel and ideas on how public health care service in Russia should operate. Nursing illuminates some of the complexities of Soviet health care and ideology, particularly the state’s desire to create a socialist form of nursing in theory, despite the strong links with the prerevolutionary past in the form of personnel. This situation changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the new Russian state attempted to sever connections with the past, this time with the Soviet past. But as I show, making a clean break with the past is a difficult and often fraught process

Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Public health · Soviet union · State (computer science) · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Soviet and Russian History

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