The article reveals the conditions for creation of concept of "the Soviet medicine" and traces the evolution of its principles i.e. the understanding of its key features. The source base was created on extracted their formulations from the program texts of Bolsheviks, journal publications of medical administrators, minutes of meetings of historians of medicine and textbooks on the organization of health care. The study demonstrated how during the hundred years (1918-2018) the semantics of formulations changed quite radically. The explanation is proposed concerning how and why the former meanings were lost and the form of statements sacralized.
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Затравкин et al. (2020) studied this question.