NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH: THE LEGACY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
The analysis of nursing shows that there was a great deal of continuity in terms of medical personnel and ideas about how public health care should work in Russia. Nursing highlights some of the complexities of Soviet health care and ideology, especially the state's desire to create a theoretically socialist form of nursing, despite the close connection with the pre-revolutionary past in the form of cadres. This situation changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the new Russian state tried to cut ties with the past, this time with the Soviet past.