Book ID: CBB150793262

Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism (2022)

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Grant, Susan (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 336
Language: English

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 was great, but how might these workers best serve the country's needs? By examining living and working conditions, nurse-patient relations, education, and attempts at international nursing cooperation, Grant recounts the history of the Bolshevik effort to define the "Soviet" nurse and organize a new system of socialist care for the masses. Although the Bolsheviks aimed to transform healthcare along socialist lines, they ultimately failed as the struggle to train skilled medical workers became entangled in politics. Soviet Nightingales draws on rich archival research from Russia, the United States, and Britain to describe how ideology reinvented the role of the nurse and shaped the profession.

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Authors & Contributors
Yukushina, Irina I.
Olga Povoroznyuk
Adrienne Edgar
Capasso, Lorenzo
Smith, Stephen A.
Ekkert, Natalia V.
Concepts
Health care
Medicine and government
Medicine and politics
Medicine
Professions and professionalization
Nurses and nursing
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
Spain
France
Great Britain
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
American Red Cross
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