Medical support of military operations during the Civil War in Russia (on the example of the Northern Front)

The conduct of a civil war differs from other wars not only in tactics and strategy but in the particular importance of organizing medical affairs, in the forms of the evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield, since in conditions of civil confrontation, the attitude towards the wounded becomes a weapon of ideological struggle. The civil war in Russia took place on different fronts and often in various forms. The intensity of the clashes, the relationship between the army and the local population was due to the natural and climatic conditions. Primary care for the wounded in a civil conflict often took the form of improvisation. The article attempts to reconstruct military doctors’ daily activities in the specific conditions of the Northern Front, specifically its Arkhangelsk region. Due to the limited source base, the author used a set of sources of different nature, applying the procedure of their cross - checking.

the Civil War 1917-1922 in Russia, European North, military medical organization, organization of primary medical care for the wounded and sick, evacuation of the wounded