anti-nuclear movement

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.

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.