Vladimir Alexandrovich Shalamov,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Struggle of the Medical Corporation against the Imperial Administration in the Late 19th – Early 20th Century (on the Example of Eastern Siberia)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-5-7
The article is devoted to the struggle of medical personnel against representatives of the bureaucracy of the Russian Empire in the late 19th – early 20th centuries on the example of Eastern Siberia. To solve the problem, archival materials and memoirs of contemporaries were used. However, much more important was the lively reactions of people related to health care, gleaned by the author from such periodicals. The sides of the struggle are medical corporations on the one hand and the bureaucracy of the Russian Empire on the other. Most healthcare professionals were inclined towards democratic forms of government. In the fight, they used a wide range of techniques. They took part in revolutionary organizations, maintained underground printing houses, and facilitated the escape of political prisoners from prisons. Some representatives of medicine even took part in the First Russian Revolution and even suffered from subsequent repression (I.P. Mikhailovsky, M.M. Olshvanger, A.A. Chvalinsky, I.A. Shinkman). Some medical workers preferred to fight on legal platforms, for example, in the State Duma (N.F. Nikolaevsky, V.E. Mandelberg, A.A. Voyloshnikov) or local governments (V.M. Krutovsky, P.I. Fedorov, Z.G. Frank-Kamenetsky, A.A. Filinov). The imperial bureaucracy, on the other hand, sought to preserve the existing order. A wide range of measures was used for this purpose. The most consistent medical workers in the struggle were arrested, dismissed from work, and subjected to administrative penalties. More compliant medical workers were involved in the management. They were allowed to organize regional medical congresses of rural doctors. Exiled medical workers were given the opportunity to practice medicine. The analysis of the actual material allows us to take a new look at the personnel policy in the Russian Empire in the medical field.
Publishing: 28/10/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 27/03/2021
How to cite: Shalamov V.A. The Struggle of the Medical Corporation against the Imperial Administration in the Late 19th – Early 20th Century (on the Example of Eastern Siberia) // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 5 (19), pp. 76–86 . [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-5-07.pdf]
Links: Issue 5 2021
Keywords: history of medicine; history of healthcare; The First Russian Revolution; doctors-revolutionaries