Russia in the time of cholera : disease under Romanovs and Soviets /: disease under Romanovs and Soviets. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John P. Davis.
• Authors: Davis, John P
• Contents: Front Cover; Author Biography; Library of Modern Russia; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Major Contributions; Russia's Vulnerability to Cholera; The Russian Intellectual Framework; Tsarist and Soviet Anti-Cholera Strategies; Cholera's Departure from Russia; Historiography; Sources; Organisation; 1. Cholera and its Environs: The Case of Russia; Transportation and Disease in Russia; Russian Science and Cholera; Immunology and its Reception in Russia; Conclusion; 2. Tsarist Russia and the First Five Pandemics, 1817-94 The First 'Time of Troubles'The Tambora Volcano and First Pandemic, 1815-23; The Second Pandemic and 'Hungry' Forties: 1829-49; The Crimean War and Third Pandemic: 1852-9; The Fourth Pandemic, 1865-73: The Great Reforms, Famine and Preventive Medicine; The Krakatoa Volcano and the 1892 Cholera Epidemic; The 1892 Epidemic: Its Course and Characteristics; Erismann and Russian Bacteriology; The Pasteurisation of Russia, 1883-1928; Conclusion; 3. The Sixth Pandemic Enters Russia, 1902-7; 'The Troubles' Begin, 1902-7; The Siberian Epidemic of 1902; The Tsarist Cholera Rules, 1903 The Persian Expedition of 1904The Cholera Epidemic in Saratov, 1904; The SEC Railroad Sub-Commission, 1904; The Saratov SEC, 1904; Gamaleia's Investigation of the 1904 Epidemic; The 1905 Revolution and Pirogov Cholera Conference; Zemstvo Physicians versus Koch; Conclusion; 4. Cholera Returns to Russia, 1907-13; Cholera Reappears in Russia: Samara, 1907; The 1907 Cholera Epidemic and Investigation in Samara; The MVD Returns to the Volga, 1908-9; The Tsarist Railroad and Cholera; The Threat of Cholera on the Russian Railroad and the Muslim Hajj, 1907-9 Gamaleia and the Great 1908 Epidemic in St PetersburgThe 1910 Epidemic; Conclusion; 5. The Troubles Continue: World War I, 1914-17; The Outbreak of World War I and Russian Public Health, 1914; The Pirogov Society and the Threat of Cholera, 1914; Organisation of the Russian Military-Medical Apparatus, 1914-15; The Tsarist Retreat and Moscow Cholera Epidemic of 1915; The Progressive Bloc; The Beginning of the End, 1916; Conclusion; 6. The Revolutions, Civil War and War Communism, 1917-21; Russia's Second Bloody Sunday: The February Revolution, 1917; Lenin Returns to Russia, 1917 The Provisional Government and Public Health, 1917The Bolsheviks, War Communism and the Unification of Soviet Public Health, 1917-18; The 1918 Epidemic in Russia; Cholera Comes to Petrograd, 1918; An Impending Crisis; Applause from the West; Moscow versus Petrograd; Bolshevik Vaccination; General Shortages and Other Problems; Conclusion; 7. The New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-8; The Troubles in Saratov Province, 1921; Social Hygiene and General Hygiene; Lenin Confronts Cholera, 1921; Weaknesses in the NEP, 1921-2; Conclusion; 8. The End of 'Classical' Cholera Epidemics in the Soviet Union
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, charts, maps
• Subjects: 614.5/140947; Cholera -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Cholera -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Diseases -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Diseases -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Medicine -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Public health -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Public health -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL / Public Health; Cholera; Diseases; Medicine; Public health; Cholera -- history; Russia; Russia; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786723659; 1786723654
• Related ISBNs: 178831168X; 9781788311687; 1786723654; 178673365X; 9781786733658
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2018).
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