Soviet Medical Cooperatives

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"In 1917, a bloody revolution in Russia resulted in the formation of the Soviet Union. In the socialist society that Lenin established at that time, the state was given complete control over all aspects of life. This totalitarian control was extended to the fields of medicine and public health. Lenin "condemned" the idea of doctors practicing medicine for profit (Ryan, 1989, 92). On this basis, all doctors were ordered to quit their private practices and to work directly for the Soviet government. By the 1920's, "the private practice of medicine was suppressed to an almost irreducible level" (Ryan, 1989, p. 93). In contrast to the development of the medical profession in the United States and Europe, doctors in the Soviet Union were subjected to both low prestige and low pay. The situation remained this way until the mid-1980's and the reforms of Mikhail ..."

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