title: History of the terror of the communist regime of the Soviet Union in relation to doctors of Soviet Ukraine.
abstract: This paper presents information about the victimization of doctors, medical scientists and the staff of scientific and medical schools of soviet Ukraine, during the years from 1919 to 1953. It includes details of 622 doctors who were persecuted, of whom 142 were shot and 337 were deported to concentration camps. It describes the repression of Ukrainian medical scientists, of whom nearly 50 were arrested and 7 were shot. It also gives details of the "Doctors' Plot" of 1952-53, which was initiated by Stalin.
authors.affiliation: Danylo Halytsky National Medical University, Lviv. hanitkevych@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Yoroslav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hanitkevych
mesh_terms: D003148:Communism / Q000266:history*; D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D014586:USSR; D014455:Ukraine; D014858:War Crimes / Q000266:history*