EVALUATION OF SIX SOVIET MEDICAL BOOKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040239-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 239
• Publication Date: July 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Evaluaticn of Six Soviet Medical Books
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED B
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DISTR. M 53
NO OF PAGES 5
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
00-K-1340
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
I. VNUTRENNIYE BOLEZNI by Ye M Tar Bey (Medgiz, Moscow. 1951, 950 PP)
II. OSNOYY DIAGNOSTIKI I CEASxNOY PATOLOGII (PROPEDEVTII(A) VNUTREI,INIRH
BOLEZNEY by,' L snikov (Medgiz, Moscow, 1951, 68o pp)
III. KORONARHAYA BOLEZN+ by V Ye Newlin (Tsentral'nyy Institut Usover-
shenstvovaniya Vrachey
Mo
,
scow 1951, 254 1,p)
IV* VNUTRENNIYE BOLEZNI by V I Kristn n
(Medgiz, Moscow 1951, 444 pp)
V. GOSUDARSTVERNAYA FARIIAi{OpWA SSSR (Medgiz, Moscow 1952, 822 pp)
VI. N. F. GAMAI.EYA - TOM VTOROY (Akad Med Nauk SSSR, Moscow 1951, 386 pp) 7
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CONFIDENTIAL/SECURITY INFORMATION
Tareyev's book consists of two parts: a short introduction (26 pages) and
the body of the book Itself (ahnrt opt naanc.l T+ _. ____.. -. - -
~~ ~u~as on the subject
Published in Western countries. Its general subject is internal medicine but
it places particular emphasis on physiological topics, Its method of pre-
sentation is reminiscent more of US texts than European. If Soviet students
study this work thoroughly, they unquestionably r-re very c etent in the
treatment of diseases of the internal organs. methods in the hook
no unusual
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4. The book mentions all the achievements of well-known Russian physicianL
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a historical survey of Russian medicine.
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ever, that various scientists
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ilce Zakhs.rvz, Bodkhi ad Ostroumov. who were considered enemies of the
Marxist ideology in t;.e 1920's and 1930's, are now apparently regarded as
saints. It is now possible to find medical baoks containing pictures of
Lang, Konchalovskiy trio; even Str?azhesko, in spite of their earlier anti-
Comarunist activities. Strazk:sko
Denikin movement in 1917-1919. , for example, was active in the General
c, The propaganda program
someone other than Tare " ' "?? livuuui written ny
"the ~ Yev. On page nine for example, the following
statement general work of the great Cor-%ptieuo of medicine Stalin in
linguictics furnished the leading points necessary for the development of all
sciences] Au was to be expected, the introduction also overemphasized the
work of Pavlov. Still another political point in the introduction is a
reference on page eight to the research work of Dr M A Usi evich, who carried
on