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«Правда жизни»: борьба с венерическими заболеваниями в СССР в 1920‑е гг. в официальной пропаганде и массовых представлениях
Studies of epidemics and related fears and neuroticisms are especially relevant nowadays. Our research topic is an interesting aspect of early Soviet healthcare which has not been extensively studied: Sanitary propaganda on the subject of Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) which was widespread in the 1920s after the First World War, the Revolution and the Civil War. The study also focuses on people’s reaction to this kind of propaganda: as an involuntary consequence, people were afraid of venereal diseases much more than they should have been. This paper offers a first approach to the systematization and analysis of some useful and almost unknown primary sources on the history of medicine, sanitary propaganda and its impact on the population of the USSR in the 1920s.