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Thinking Internationally, Acting Locally: Soviet Public Health as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1920s

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One of the key planks in the strategy of Soviet public health leaders to regain their standing in international public health in the 1920s was the creation in European countries of bi-lingual journals in medicine and public health. In Moscow, such journals were touted as vehicles to showcase the “new” Soviet public health and create networks of foreign public health men supportive of the Soviet regime. Those responsible for the operation of the journals on the ground faced the challenge of adapting to the local a strategy designed as international. The chapter explores the functioning of the bi-lingual journals in two different settings: Germany, with which the new Soviet regime enjoyed a Sonderverhaltnis (special relation) and France, which recognized the new Soviet regime with distinctly less enthusiasm.

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Solomon, S.G. (2017). Thinking Internationally, Acting Locally: Soviet Public Health as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1920s. In: Grant, S. (eds) Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44171-9_9

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