Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Seminar
Module Offerings
6108HIST-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. Introduce students to Soviet healthcare and how it related to wider political, social, and economic issues.
2. Provide students with an in-depth understanding of how the Soviet healthcare system worked, developing their analytical, critical, and communication skills.
3. Equip students with the knowledge and skills to critically assess primary and secondary source material and incorporate both in their assessments.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Discuss and clearly articulate important concepts with reference to examples studied in class, including primary and secondary sources.
2.
Demonstrate a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of historiographical themes and apply this knowledge critically.
3.
Engage in historical debate about Soviet approaches to building a socialist healthcare system and evaluate these in discussions within the wider context of Soviet politics and society.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The Soviet project, based on Marxist-Leninist principles, focused on the human body and the state expected its citizens to be healthy and productive members of society. This module examines state efforts to make Soviet people healthy through discussing and assessing questions on the themes of medicine, science, exercise, labour, gender, and ageing. Sources include photographs, film, diaries, and official documents. Discussions will address the relationship between state and society as well as what socialist care meant in practice. By viewing healthcare as a barometer of Soviet achievement, this module will provide ample space for debates about the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet system.
Module Overview:
The aim of this module is to introduce you to Bolshevik concepts of the body, and how these related to wider social, political, economic and cultural issues. You will be provided with an in-depth understanding of the early Soviet state and society, developing their analytical, critical, and communication skills.
The aim of this module is to introduce you to Bolshevik concepts of the body, and how these related to wider social, political, economic and cultural issues. You will be provided with an in-depth understanding of the early Soviet state and society, developing their analytical, critical, and communication skills.
Additional Information:War, revolution, civil war and the public health crisis; creating a socialist healthcare system; building a healthy and productive citizenry; leisure and physical culture; cadres decide everything: medical workers and the feminized healthcare professions; healthcare during the Great Patriotic War; post-war health: focus on women; labour, productivity, and ageing; the Moral Code of the Builders of Communism: the “care” in healthcare; bringing humanity into healthcare under Brezhnev; the healthcare crisis of the 1980s