title: Yakov Stechkin: Portrait of a Provincial Surgeon in the Realities of the 1920s
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metadata.value: Volodina, T. A.
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metadata.value: Simonova, E. V.
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metadata.value: 2021-11-08T11:40:55Z
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metadata.value: 2021-11-08T11:40:55Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Volodina T. A., Simonova E. V. ‘Yakov Stechkin: Portrait of a Provincial Surgeon in the Realities of the 1920s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 3, 2021, pp. 654–673.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33453
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metadata.value: The article provides an analysis of professional formation and conditions of development of practical
  medicine in a provincial city of central Russia in the 1920s. For the first time, the authors introduce materials from
  the personal archive of surgeon Yakov Sergeyevich Stechkin, the brother and father of famous constructors Boris
  and Igor Stechkin. Yakov Stechkin practiced in Aleksin in 1922–1935. Based on statistical reports from his personal
  archive, the article reveals the peculiarities of provincial surgery. It analyzes such features as the range of
  operations performed, the use of anesthesia, and the level of lethality. Main attention is paid to the analysis of the
  mutual interweaving and transformation of various professional and cultural components in the activity of an ordinary
  physician: the traditions of zemstvo medicine, military surgery, and Soviet medicine of the 1920s. Each of
  these components made a contribution to behavioral models of the provincial doctor. Traditions of medicine with
  its principles of accessibility and free service correlated with the declared norms of Soviet health care system,
  versatility of military surgeon was more than necessary in terms of personnel lack, while material devastation was
  offset by broad professional freedom, permeated with the atmosphere of research and experimentation. Based
  on the memoir sources, the authors show the specific ways of communication between a doctor and his patients,
  typical of a small provincial town. The authors of put particular emphasis on the fact that an ordinary provincial
  surgeon resorted to trends of the time, such as experiments in eugenics, endocrinology, and rejuvenation. The
  article highlights factors that led the Russian physician, who treated the power of the Bolsheviks without reverence,
  to be integrated into the Soviet health care system.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: province
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medicine
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1920s
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metadata.value: surgeon
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metadata.value: experiments
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metadata.value: eugenics
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metadata.value: endocrinology
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metadata.value: Yakov Stechkin: Portrait of a Provincial Surgeon in the Realities of the 1920s
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