Healthcare Stalin
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- Created on: 22-04-16 13:50
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- Health
- Pre-Stalin
- In 1918, Lenin had set up People's Commissariat of Health.
- This provided free healthcare.
- The Civil War interrupted healthcare.
- In 1918, Lenin had set up People's Commissariat of Health.
- Stalin
- In unaffected areas there was an advance in healthcare.
- This was used in propaganda.
- Sanatoria for the treatment of tuberculosis, and rest and retirement homes for the workers were created.
- Holiday centres in Yalta where selected workers could go.
- The Nomenklatura privileged the most from healthcare.
- The idea of health for all was not abandoned during the 1930s, it was just hard to maintain.
- Gynaecology and midwifery clinics improved as Stalin saw that a primary role of women was to produce babies.
- Rationing continued until 1947.
- Poor diets led to people relying on the black market.
- The Gulags made people extremely unhealthy and exhausted.
- In unaffected areas there was an advance in healthcare.
- Pre-Stalin
- 1930s collectivisation famine.
- The worst hit areas were Ukraine and Kazakhstan
- The healthcare services in these areas could not cope.
- Stalin
- In unaffected areas there was an advance in healthcare.
- This was used in propaganda.
- Sanatoria for the treatment of tuberculosis, and rest and retirement homes for the workers were created.
- Holiday centres in Yalta where selected workers could go.
- The Nomenklatura privileged the most from healthcare.
- The idea of health for all was not abandoned during the 1930s, it was just hard to maintain.
- Gynaecology and midwifery clinics improved as Stalin saw that a primary role of women was to produce babies.
- Rationing continued until 1947.
- Poor diets led to people relying on the black market.
- The Gulags made people extremely unhealthy and exhausted.
- In unaffected areas there was an advance in healthcare.
- Stalin refused to acknowledge that there was a famine.
- No real effort was made.
- The worst hit areas were Ukraine and Kazakhstan
- Factories and plants were encouraged to build creches.
- Breast feeding took place at certain times to prevent any impact on production.
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