Russian psychiatry from Nicholas II to Stalin

The term "psychiatry" came to Russia from Western Europe at the beginning of the XIX century. And spread in parallel with the opening of houses for mentally ill. At the same time, the number of comprehensive works on the history of the formation and development of the Institute of Russian Psychiatry in the XIX - XX centuries is very small. This book, which the author did not have time to add because of his death in 1949, is considered the best and most informative on the topic of the history of psychiatry in Russia in the first half of the 20th century.
Tikhon Ivanovich Yudin (1879-1949) - Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, professor. The author of more than 100 works on the issues of heredity and the role of exogenous factors, intoxications in the etiology of psychosis, schizophrenia, progressive paralysis, epilepsy, etc