A. R . Rosenberg: "the Doctors’ Plot" in Stalinsk State Institute of Advanced Medical Training (1953)
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2019-21-4-915-923
Abstract
This research reconstructed the biography of Professor A. R. Rosenberg, MD, who was the first head of the Microbiology Department of Stalinsk State Institute of Advanced Medical Training (the modern city of Novokuznetsk) in 1951–1953. The paper focuses on the prosecution this scientist and educator who suffered from the so-called "Doctors’ plot" (1953). "The Doctors' plot" is regarded as the final event of the anti-cosmopolitanism campaign of 1949–1953, which was directed primarily against the Jewish intellectuals. The campaign was notorious for the severe attacks on the academia. At the Stalinsk Institute, they launched a "purge" based on the ethnic principle, which resulted in a criminal case against some employees, including A. R. Rosenberg. The arrested educators were declared "members of the Jewish-bourgeois nationalist group". The charges brought were connected with the ideological principles of the campaign against cosmopolitanism and "the Doctors’ plot". After the criminal case was terminated, A. R. Rosenberg was reinstated in his position. However, poor health made him retire in 1953. A. R. Rosenberg shared the fate of the Soviet intelligentsia who suffered during the campaign against cosmopolitanism and "the Doctors’ plot".
About the Authors
E. S. Genina
Kemerovo State University
Russian Federation
6, Krasnaya St., Kemerovo, 650000
Russian Federation
6, Krasnaya St., Kemerovo, 650000
E. B. Kaymashnikova
A. I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
Russian Federation
20/1, Delegatskaya St., Moscow, 127473
Russian Federation
20/1, Delegatskaya St., Moscow, 127473
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Genina E.S., Kaymashnikova E.B. A. R . Rosenberg: "the Doctors’ Plot" in Stalinsk State Institute of Advanced Medical Training (1953). The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2019;21(4):915-923. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2019-21-4-915-923
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