Description
Book SynopsisThis book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic and political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera and the politics of public health policy. It makes a significant contribution to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.
Trade Review"[A] very important and thoroughly researched book with well-contextualised arguments on cholera and medical professionals in Russia."- Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas; Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2011
Table of Contents1. Cholera in Russia 2. Saratov on the Eve of the Epidemic 3. Cholera in Saratov, 1892 4. Sanitised Politics and the Politics of Medicine 5. The Revival of Cholera: 1904-1914 Conclusion: Saratov, Cholera, and the Empire
