22.07.2025

USSR

On the history of the ban on abortion in the USSR: the views of the authorities and Soviet public opinion from the perspective of bioethics (1935–1936)

Наталия Шок03 mins

Nikita Yu. Pivovarov, Nataliya P. Shok.
This article looks at the debate in the USSR in 1935–1936 on banning abortions. This episode of Soviet history has enormous heuristic potential for researchers studying the Soviet period. At fi rst sight, the bill to ban abortions appears simply a matter of historical medical fact, based on which we can in many ways draw conclusions about the situation in healthcare in general, and in obstetrics and gynaecology in particular.

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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.

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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.

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The Evolution of the Concept “bioethics” in theDynamics of the Soviet and Chinese History ofMedicine

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Olga Nagornykh, Natalia Shock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18254/S207987840021761-6
The article analyzes the formation and development of the concept of bioethics in the historical
context of the Chinese and Soviet reality. The reasons for slow reception of bioethics in the Soviet
and Chinese medical communities are considered. Separately, the phenomenon of Confucian
bioethics is investigated in the context of its perception in the practice of medicine in China.

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Soviet Medicine in the Cold War: the Experience ofInternational Cooperation and Geopolitical Influence(Second Half of the 1940s — 1970s)

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Nikita Pivovarov, Natalia Shock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18254/S207987840020707-6
The article is devoted to the transformation of Soviet medical science and practice under the
conditions of the development of international relations after World War II. The main attention was
placed on the study of scientific and social medical projects, which were implemented by the USSR
during the Cold War under the influence of foreign policy trends and priorities.

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