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Soviet Nightingales : Care under Communism / Susan Grant.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 12 b&w halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501762604
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. War and Revolution -- 2. Creating Order out of Chaos -- 3. Black Star, Red Star: Finding the Soviet Way -- 4. Proletarian Paradise: Medical Workers Rise Up -- 5. Stalinist Care: Cadres Decide Everything -- 6. Fortresses of Sanitary Defense: Preparing for War -- 7. A Decade of War and Reconstruction -- 8. Caring for the Mind -- 9. Communist Morality, Activism, and Ethics -- Epilogue -- Coda -- Notes -- Archives and Libraries Consulted -- Index
Summary: In Soviet Nightingales, Susan Grant tracks the origins of nursing care in the nineteenth century 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 health care 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 limn how ideology reinvented the role of the nurse and shaped the profession.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. War and Revolution -- 2. Creating Order out of Chaos -- 3. Black Star, Red Star: Finding the Soviet Way -- 4. Proletarian Paradise: Medical Workers Rise Up -- 5. Stalinist Care: Cadres Decide Everything -- 6. Fortresses of Sanitary Defense: Preparing for War -- 7. A Decade of War and Reconstruction -- 8. Caring for the Mind -- 9. Communist Morality, Activism, and Ethics -- Epilogue -- Coda -- Notes -- Archives and Libraries Consulted -- Index

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In Soviet Nightingales, Susan Grant tracks the origins of nursing care in the nineteenth century 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 health care 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 limn how ideology reinvented the role of the nurse and shaped the profession.

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