Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900-1941: Protecting the Collective

by Christopher Williams

Book Overview

In the first book to chart late Imperial and Soviet health policy and its impact on the health of the collective in Russia's former capital and second "regime" city, Christopher Williams argues that in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg radical sections of the medical profession and the Bolsheviks highlighted the local and Tsarist government's failure to protect the health of poor peasants and the working class due to conflicts over the priority...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032095229
• ISBN13: 9781032095226
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"