Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

by Charlotte E . Henze (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $156.51

  Addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia. This book focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the Volga. It explains why a medical and social disaster that had long since been overcome in other parts of Europe continued much later in Russia.