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88: 188: 180: 37: 132: 258:, placed a greater onus on the spread of syphilis through sexual activity. The sexual habits of the Buryats, beginning early in life, being casual and short term, were more significant. The researchers also took note of the economic and social conditions affecting Buryat society and saw potential for change. According to Francine Hirsch, "Both research groups portrayed the "Buryats as a 'primitive' people with a 'backward' culture who were in danger of extinction." 261:
The German theory that syphilitic Buryats were different to syphilitic Europeans was not demonstrated as the treatment with salvarsan showed no difference in efficacy between the two peoples. The expedition was seen as essentially two expeditions with two agendas and it ended after only three months.
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The researchers used questionnaires and interviews to gather information about the sexual activity of the Buryats as well as matters such as alcoholism and classifying people according to age and marital status. The resulting information was translated and transcribed as many of the respondents were
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of the Institute of Advanced Medical Studies for Physicians in Leningrad wrote that before 1917 there were no planned methods of syphilis control in Russia despite the disease being widespread there. After the Russian Revolution the Soviet government started a large-scale programme to monitor the
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Previously, the cause of syphilis in the Buryat people was felt to be primarily "non-venereal", that is, not thought to be transmitted through sexual contact. The Soviet researchers determined, contrary to expectations, that in the case of the Buryats, the disease was mainly transmitted through
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A pilot study was conducted in 1926 and the full expedition took place in 1928. It comprised eight medical researchers from each country and its purpose was to investigate endemic syphilis in the Kul’skoe region and to determine the efficacy of the anti-syphilis drug
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The expedition provoked disputes as the Soviets and Germans had different motives for participating which was reflected in difficulties preparing the joint report of the expedition.
234:, whose religion prohibited bathing, were chosen as subjects because they were seen as a "primitive race" within which the disease was known to be widespread. German dermatologist 207:(now Ulan-Ude). The degree of syphilis in the area had been mapped out over the previous few years and found to have a prevalence of between 42 and 63% of the population. 119:. The expedition concluded, contrary to expectations, that although affected by poor sanitation and lifestyle, the spread of syphilis in the area was caused primarily by 87: 650:"Soviet Eugenics for National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernisation of a Frontier Region 1923–1928" 719: 211: 663: 593: 482: 434: 187: 307:
Solomon, Susan Gross (1993). "The Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition to Buryat Mongolia, 1928: Scientific Research on National Minorities".
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expedition that took place in 1928. It comprised eight medical researchers from each country and its purpose was to investigate endemic
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disease, using "expeditions" to remote regions to gather information. There were more than 1,000 "expeditions" between 1917 and 1940.
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Brzezińska-Wcisło, Ligia; Szeremeta-Bazylewicz, Grazyna; Lis, Anna; Rogala-Poborska, Iwona; Suwała-Jurczyk, Bozena (May 2003). "".
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sexual activity. They did not discount the influence of poor sanitation and lifestyle, but with their methods on
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to the right of the wagon, all outside the State Venereological Institute. Photographed by Dr Karl Wilmanns.
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Planning for the Soviet–German Syphilis Expedition started in 1924, one year after Buryatia became an
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Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918–1940
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Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
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The Lilly Library hold six volumes of photographs from the expedition.
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in Siberia and to determine the efficacy of the anti-syphilis drug
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Soviet and German syphilis researchers at Kul'skoe, Summer 1928.
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Soviet anti-syphilis propaganda, Moscow, 1926. Image shows Dr
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Lilly Library News & Notes. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia Between the Wars
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by Susan Gross Solomon in Susan Gross Solomon (Ed.) (2006).
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Salvarsan treatment kit for syphilis, Germany, 1909–1912.
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causing syphilis was identified in 1905 by dermatologist
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Björn M. Felder & Paul J. Weindling. (Eds.) (2013).
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Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union
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Salvarsan treatment kit for syphilis, Germany, 1909–1912
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Traditional Buryat yurt. Ethnographic Museum, Ulan Ude.
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by Susan Gross Solomon in Rosalind Marsh (Ed.) (1996)
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Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890–1945
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Index

Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition

salvarsan
syphilis

Soviet
German
syphilis
Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Republic
Salvarsan
sexual activity

Volf Bronner
organism
Erich Hoffmann
Fritz Schaudinn
Wassermann test
Salvarsan
Pyotr Vasilievich Kozhewnikov


Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union
Kul’skoe
Verchne Udinsk
Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft
Friedrich Schmidt-Ott
Russian Academy of Sciences
Salvarsan
Buryats
Max Jessner

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