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Social history of Soviet medicine

The peacemaking movement of the USSR in the late 1940s – early 1960s: Christian denominations and the ethics of international humanistic dialogue

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Nikita Iu. Pivovarov, Vitaly V. Tikhonov, Nataliya P. Shok.
The article analyzes the activities of the Christian denominations of the USSR in the Soviet peacekeeping movement on the basis of various sources. The choice of Christian denominations is due to the fact that representatives of these denominations were the most prominent in the Soviet peacemaking movement in the late 1940s and early 1960s. The article consists of two sections. The first section covers the main organizational issues.

Social history of Soviet medicine

The business trips of the Soviet doctors to the PRC in the 1950s–1960s: implementation of cooperation plans in the field of medicine and healthcare.

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Olga S. Nagornykh, Nataliya P. Shok.
The article is devoted to the study of organization of the Soviet doctors and specialists’ business trips to China in the 1950s-1960s. The goal is to determine the tasks of trips, their features, and results. The work also demonstrates previously unknown facts in historiography, based on archival data, concerning the continuation of cooperation in the field of medicine after the rupture of diplomatic relations between the USSR and China.

Social history of Soviet medicine

Media Narratives in the Social History of Medicine: the Case Study of the 1949 Khabarovsk Trial

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O.S. Nagornykh, N.P. Shok.
In the article, the authors explore media narratives of the tribunal held in December 1949 in Khabarovsk over Japanese doctors recognized as war criminals involved in the development and use of bacteriological weapons, as well as conducting medical experiments on humans that are incompatible with the norms of morality and ethics of medicine.

Social history of Soviet medicine

The Cholera Epidemic in the Border Territories of the Far East in the Early 20th Century

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Nagornykh O. S., Shok N. P.
Modern History of Russia, vol. 14, no. 1, 2024, pp. 144–159.
As a rule, the epidemics that took place on the Russian territory in the first quarter of the 20th century were a part of the world epidemics that covered significant territories. Based on the materials of local newspa pers, the reaction of the population towards current events and government actions is traced. The abundance of information and the range of periodicals which enable to trace the dynamic development of epidemics, statistics of diseases and public opinion about current events and activities is highlighted.

Social history of Soviet medicine

The “Last Epidemic”: USSR and “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” in the first half of the 1980s

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N. Yu. Pivovarov, N. P. Shok.
The paper analyzes the history of Soviet initiatives within the movement “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” (IPPNW) in the first half of the 1980s. Drawing on documents from the Russian State Archive of Modern History and periodicals, the authors state that the emergence of this movement was connected with the settlement of relations between the USSR and the USA in the field of disarmament, particularly with the signing of the SALT-1 Treaty in 1972.