Zemstvo Health Care in Rural Russia c.1864–1917

Abstract

Although there is a substantial English literature on pre-Revolutionary Russian health care, particularly concerning professional and political organisation, the practicalities sun·ounding its delivery have attracted less attention. 1 This contribution examines health care provision under the post-1864 zemstvo systeln of local govenl1nent and the associated encounters between Inodern Inedicine and local populations. It combines research findings principally on two Russian provinces (gubernii), Olonets and Salnara, with an existing study of the Moscow guberniya and a selection of Russian-language studies and eye-witness accounts.