To the issue of the soviet takeover of higher education during the russian civil war: militarization of higher medical education in 1920-1922 (on the example of the Petrograd Medical Institute)

The article is devoted to the first years of Soviet power, when there was a formation of the relationship between higher medical school and the Bolsheviks. Attention is given to carrying out the militarization of higher medical school in the early 1920s by Soviet authorities. It was the first attempt to reform the higher education for the purpose of building a new society. The experience gained by the People's Commissariat of Education in carrying out reforms, will be used in the mid-1920s, when the Bolsheviks begin to radically change higher education in the country