State policy in the sanatorium and resort during World War I
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2025-1-111-126
Abstract
The article discusses the sanatorium industry in the Russian Empire before World War I. It also explores the way it changed under the influence of the war and analyzes the role the government played working out the tasks of developing the resort industry and using Russian resorts for military purposes. The author draws conclusions about the increased state regulation and funding of the domestic healthcare. The key factors that led to these changes included the increased inflow of ordinary people to Russian resorts due to the closure of foreign borders and the need for rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. The war inflicted attention to domestic resorts. The Zemstvo Union and the Union of Cities made efforts to organize under their leadership and at the state expenses the sanatorium treatment of wounded soldiers. Besides, there emerged two influential charitable organizations that united elite representatives and focused on the development of domestic health resorts – the All-Russian Society of Health Resorts in Memory of the War of 1914 and the All-Russian Society for the Development and Improvement of Medical Areas in Russia. The military context led to an increased tendency to make sanatorium treatment more accessible to the general public.
About the Author
S. V. Bukalova
Central Russian Institute of Management – branch of RANEPA
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Svetlana V. Bukalova, Cand. of Sci. (History), associate professor
12, Oktyabrskaya St., Orel, Russia, 302028
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Bukalova S.V. State policy in the sanatorium and resort during World War I. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2025;(1):111-126. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2025-1-111-126
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