title: Drug Addiction and the Practice of Public Health in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vasilyev, Pavel A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-12-27T15:08:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-27T15:08:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Vasilyev P. A. Drug Addiction and the Practice of Public Health in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 4, рp. 1100–1119.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.407
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15209
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The relatively short period from 1914 to 1932 witnessed a radical change in the attitudes of
  both governmental authorities and professional communities towards drugs and addiction.
  Before the First World War, Russians could easily buy cocaine or heroin at a pharmacy,
  medical science did not view addiction as a serious social problem. There was practically
  no government regulation or legislation concerning recreational drugs. By the early 1930s,
  however, the market of recreational drugs had been heavily regulated, drug sale had been
  criminalized, and physicians and criminologists had begun to label drug addicts as bourgeois,
  degenerate, or otherwise socially anomalous people who should be sent to special camps. An
  important turning point occurred in late 1924, when Soviet authorities issued two decrees
  that provided a legal definition of criminal drug sales, signaling the start of a more intensive
  struggle against drug abuse. This paper examines the social practice of late Imperial and early
  Soviet public health in order to evaluate the evolution of “in-the-field” medical approaches
  towards opiate, cocaine and cannabis addiction. It focuses on the period when drug use
  was first constructed as a delinquency, and thus as a social problem requiring immediate
  intervention. It examines attempts of physicians and pharmacists to restrict and control drug
  production, distribution and sale; sanitary propaganda and other prophylactic measures;
  and the establishment of special institutions for the treatment of addicts. It is concerned only
  peripherally with the judicial prosecution of drug dealers and drug addicts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared within the framework of the Gerda Henkel Foundation grant AZ 34 / P / 11.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: drug addiction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public health
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: late Imperial Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: early Soviet Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: opiates
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cocaine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Drug Addiction and the Practice of Public Health in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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