ISSN 2409-5834

Foreign representative offices of the Soviet Red Cross in the 1920s and 1930s in the context of the international health policy of the USSR*

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Pavel E. Ratmanov , Vsevolod Y. Bashkuev

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This article examines the activities of the foreign representative offices of the Soviet Red Cross in the 1920s and 1930s in the context of the international policy of both the People’s Commissariat of Health (PCH) of the RSFSR, and the Soviet state as a whole. Having initially taken the form of humanitarian work relating to famine relief and recovery in the RSFSR, the international activities of the Russian Red Cross Society (RRCS) soon took on additional unstated but politically important aspects.

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