The Soviet pharmaceutical business during its first two decades (1917-1937) / Mary Schaeffer Conroy.

New York : Peter Lang, [2006], ©2006.

viii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

How things were : the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy and preventive medicine in late imperial Russia -- The First World War and revolution -- The civil war: nationalization, centralization bureaucratization -- Getting back to business: the first half of NEP -- Expanding research, production and sales during the second half of the NEP -- At the apteka during the NEP -- Preventive medicine in the periphery during the NEP -- The second decade: "the second Soviet revolution" -- The five-year plans -- Preventive medicine in the periphery: the first two five-year plans -- Pharmacies during the first and second five-year plans -- Medicines for the masses : the pharmaceutical industry during the first five-year plan -- Keeping up with competition during the second five-year plan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-345) and index.