Socio-cultural practices of the adaptation of medical intelligentsia during the Civil War

The article provides the analysis of the strategies of behavior of representatives of the medical intelligentsia in the extreme conditions of the Civil War, based on unpublished documents from public and private archives; the social and material conditions of their activities have been reconstructed; professional practices, general results of scientific, pedagogical, organizational, managerial and medical work have been analyzed; the principles of personnel policy implementation in higher education have been described; the dynamics of the teaching staff has been shown and the stages of professional socialization in the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary periods have been reconstructed using the example of the activities of prominent representatives of the Medical faculty of Samara State University; the daily routine of teachers and students in the context of the breakdown of regional culture and everyday life has been analyzed. It has been proved that the teaching staff was distinguished by university training, knowledge of European languages and proficiency in modern methods of treatment and diagnosis. During the Civil War, some of the medical intelligentsia continued their work and preserved the traditions of academic training of doctors, combining medical practice and science. The results of such operation were of both fundamental and practical importance, helping to overcome the consequences of the humanitarian catastrophe of the 1920-ies famine in the Samara province.