Soviet Nightingales
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

In Soviet Nightingales , Susan Grant tracks the origins of nursing care in the nineteenth century through the end of the Soviet state. With the advent of the USSR, nurses were instrumental in helping to build the New Soviet Person and in constructing a socialist society. Disease and illness were rampant in the early 1920s after years of war, revolution, and famine. The demand for nurses was great, but how might these workers best serve the country's needs? By examining living and working conditi