
Russia in the Time of Cholera
Disease under Romanovs and Soviets
John P. Davis(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 19. September 2019
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Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-350-13011-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
8 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
419 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-13011-1 (9781350130111)
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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.
Content
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
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