The Soviet pharmaceutical business during the first two decades (1917-1937)
By: Mary Schaeffer Conroy.
Series: American university studies.; v. 202
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry -- Soviet Union -- History.
Description: Putting privately owned Russian pharmacies and pharmaceutical factories under state control in 1918/1919 did not improve the output and the distribution of soaps, disinfectants, hormones, vitamins, and medicines. Newly available archival records show that managers appointed by the Soviet government to run sequestered factories employed business methods common to market economies to make the Soviet pharmaceutical sector profitable and productive. However, an inefficient macroeconomy and interference in day-to-day policy-making in the core industry by exogenous officials (frequent reorganization, limits on imports, and excessive exports) hindered production; this plus inefficient distribution shorted consumers. Inadequate amounts of pharmaceuticals undoubtedly contributed to high mortality during the civil war (1917-1921), collectivization and industrialization (1927-1938), and World War II (1939-1945).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How things were : the pharmaceutical industry; title: Pharmacy and preventive medicine in late imperial Russia; title: The Russian pharmaceutical industry during the First World War; title: The civil war: nationalization, centralization bureaucratization; title: Getting back to business: the first half of NEP; title: Expanding research, production and sales; title: During the second half of the NEP; title: At the apteka during the 1920s; title: Preventive medicine in the periphery during the twenties; title: The second decade: "the second socialist revolution"; title: The five-year plans; title: Preventive medicine during the thirties; title: In the periphery; title: At the apteka during the first and second five-year plans; title: Medicines for the masses : the pharmaceutical industry; title: During the first five-year plan; title: Keeping up with the competition; title: During the second five-year plan.