Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Cholera and its environs: the case of Russia
  • Tsarist Russia and the first five pandemics, 1817-94
  • The sixth pandemic enters Russia, 1902-7
  • Cholera returns to Russia, 1907-13
  • The troubles continue: World War I, 1914-17
  • The revolutions, civil war and war communism, 1917-21
  • The New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-8
  • The end of `classical' cholera epidemics in the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion.