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Background/aims: Current research largely tends to ignore the drug-testing model that was developed in the ''Second World'' as an explicit alternative to the randomized controlled trial. This system can be described as ''socialist pharmapolitics,'' accounting for the specific features of state socialism that influenced the development and testing of experimental drugs. The clinical trials model employed in the ''Second World'' was heavily influenced by the Soviet Union, which was by far the most influential player in the socialist bloc during the Cold War. Based on extensive archival research, this article presents an empirical case of a late Soviet clinical trial as a pragmatic alternative to the randomized controlled trial model. It accounts for the divergences between the official model prescribed by the Soviet authorities and the messy realities of healthcare practice. It further outlines different factors that ultimately shaped how clinical trials were organized in Soviet institutions ''on the ground.'' Accordingly, this article presents a ''real-life'' history of ''socialist pharmapolitics'' and outlines the problems that this system faced in practice. Methods: Archival resea

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Author

Anastasiya Chirkova; Alexander Petrenko; Pavel Vasilyev

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Mathematics (Physical Sciences)