Russia in the Time of Cholera

Disease under Romanovs and Soviets

John P. Davis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2018
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-168-7 (ISBN)

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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.

John P. Davis has previously taught at Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky, where he received his PhD. He is currently an assistant professor of history at Hopkinsville Community College, Kentucky.

Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: The First Five Pandemics, 1816 - 1893
Chapter III: The Sixth Pandemic, 1896-1906
Chapter IV: Cholera Returns to Russia, 1907-1913
Chapter V: World War I and the Return of Cholera, 1914-1917
Chapter VI: The Revolutions, Civil War, and War Communism, 1917-1921

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Library of Modern Russia
Zusatzinfo	8 black and white integrated illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-78831-168-X / 178831168X
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-168-7 / 9781788311687
Zustand	Neuware