THE DESTINY OF KOLCHAK’S ARMY DOCTOR B. I. FUCHS IN SOVIET TIMES

• Main Author: E. S. Genina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-06-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: the civil war; “the former white”; “doctors’ case” (1953); stalin (novokuznetsk) state medical refresher institute; siberia
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1785

In the period of late Stalinism (1945 – 1953), the participants of the Civil War on the side of the White movement remained a category of the population controlled by the authorities. Boris Iljich (Ber Eljich) Fuchs (1897 – 1973) was Doctor of Medical Science, Professor, Head of Surgery Department at Stalin (Novokuznetsk) State Medical Refresher Institute in 1952 – 1973, founder of Novokuznetsk Surgery School. In 1919, B. I. Fuchs, a student of Tomsk University, was mobilized to A. V. Kolchak’s army and served there for several months as a warrant doctor in Krasnoyarsk military hospital. Later, this very fact became a discreditable one for the doctor. It was mentioned when B. I. Fuchs was going to join the All-Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks in 1951; together with the other “negative” information it was used against the scientist during the “Doctors’ Case” in 1953. For the first time this paper reconstructs B. I. Fuchs’ biography drawing much attention to the consequences of the “White” past and to the “Doctors’ Case” events. The documents of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the State Archive of Tomsk Region, the State Archive of Kemerovo Region, the State Archive of Kemerovo Region in Novokuznetsk, the Archive of Novokuznetsk State Medical Refresher Institute were the base for the research.