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IJE Advance Access originally published online on November 3, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1398-1399; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl237
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Commentary: The health crisis in the USSR: looking behind the facade

Martin McKee

Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK

E-mail: martin.mckee@lshtm.ac.uk

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My first visit to the USSR was in February 1981, by coincidence at exactly the same time that Nick Eberstadt published a commentary on ‘The health crisis in the USSR’ in the New York Review of Books.1 The USSR was one of the two world superpowers, with enough nuclear weapons to take humanity back to the Stone Age but its enormous military capacity did not quite seem to be matched by its basic infrastructure. In all sorts of ways, such as its ability to ensure that jam was available for breakfast in our hotel, it just did not seem to be working. However it had pretensions to greatness, apparent at one of the essential stops on the tourist itinerary, the VDNKh, or Exhibition of Economic Achievements. Created first in 1939 as the All-Union Agricultural Exposition, it celebrated the successes of the USSR. There was much to celebrate. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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