Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism

by Susan Grant

Book Overview

In Soviet Nightingales, Susan Grant tracks nursing care in the Soviet Union from its nineteenth-century origins in Russia through the end of the Soviet state. With the advent of the USSR, nurses were instrumental in helping to build the New Soviet Person and in constructing a socialist society.

Disease and illness were rampant in the early 1920s after years of war, revolution, and famine. The demand for nurses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501762591
• ISBN13: 9781501762598
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"