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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-866X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2412-2106</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Joint-Stock Company Chicot</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1826</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32687/0869-866X-2023-31-3-490-494</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE SOVIET HEALTH CARE: IN SEARCHING UNICORN</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ratmanov</surname><given-names>P. E.</given-names></name><email>ratma-nov@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Far Eastern State Medical University” of the Minzdrav of Russia, 680000, Khabarovsk, Russia</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2023-06-29" publication-format="electronic"><day>29</day><month>06</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>31</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>490</fpage><lpage>494</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-03"><day>03</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2023,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>&lt;p&gt;The article review the book about the Soviet health care. The analysis of its content and main conclusions is presented. The book inflicts powerful blow on myth of numerous merits, achievements, progressiveness, impeccability and humanity of the Soviet health care. The authors bring up issue of applying new theoretical and methodological basis in studying the Soviet health care. The certain directions of further study of health care in the USSR are proposed.&lt;/p&gt;</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>history of medicine</kwd><kwd>health care</kwd><kwd>the Soviet Union</kwd><kwd>methodology of historical research</kwd><kwd>empire</kwd><kwd>postcolonial studies</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>история медицины</kwd><kwd>здравоохранение</kwd><kwd>Советский Союз</kwd><kwd>методология исторического исследования</kwd><kwd>империя</kwd><kwd>постколониальные исследования</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Field M. G. Soviet socialized medicine: an introduction. 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