scholarly journals Activities of the Ufa Local Branch of the Russian Red Cross Society during the First World War

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
R. I. Kantimirova
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Local Branch ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
First World

The main directions of activity of the Ufa local branch of the Russian Red Cross Society during the First World War are considered. It is described that during wartime an important event was the organization by the Ufa local branch of an extensive collection of donations in order to create infirmaries for the wounded. In addition, feasible material assistance was provided in the form of one-time benefits to the wounded and injured soldiers. The study of materials from the reviews of the Ufa province showed that the Ufa local branch organized and sent stage infirmaries to the army. It is noted that special courses to work in them, which successfully trained the staff of sisters of mercy, were created. It is reported that many of them were presented with awards for their selfless and valiant work. The study of all-Russian and regional statistical materials made it possible to conclude that at the initial stage of the war, the fund of the Ufa local branch of the Russian Red Cross Society received significant financial allocations on the basis of public charity, which were used to solve the necessary wartime tasks. It is emphasized that by 1917, amid the growing crisis, the amount of donations significantly decreased, which significantly complicated the further activities of the Society both on a national scale and at the regional level.

A Fractured Service: Frances Webster and The Great War, 1914–1918

2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mcguire
Keyword(s):  
Complex Mixture ◽  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Great War ◽  
American Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Born to privilege in Boston, Frances Webster, like her peers volunteered overseas with the American Red Cross as a nurse's aide. Where the activities of other Americans during the First World War is characterized as a “culture of coercive volunterism,” Webster's reflected a more complex mixture of altruism and tourism. Her history of participation in the First World War suggests historians need more multifaceted frameworks to explain Americans' First World War service.

The Red Cross as a Factor in World Peace

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (80) ◽  
pp. 571-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Pictet
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First World

The promotion of world peace, although of concern to the Red Cross, was for a long time outside the purview of its programme of action. However, after the First World War the International Red Cross, sharing the hopes of the nations, declared its intention to work thenceforth, not only in time of peace, but also for peace. Since that time, nearly all International Conferences of the Red Cross have adopted resolutions on the contribution which the Red Cross could make to this noble cause.

THE ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN THE WESTERN UYEZDS OF THE ORYOL GOVERNORATE. REVIEW OF THE BRYANSK ARCHIVE'S DOCUMENTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. Cheplyanskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Organizations ◽  
First World War ◽  
City Council ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The article is based on an analysis of the Bryansk region State Archive’s documents and deals with the mobilization measures of the authorities, public organizations and residents of the Bryansk, Karachev, Sevsk and Trubchevsk uyezds of the Oryol Governorate, aimed at the organization of health care for sick and wounded combatants during the First World War. The significance of the city of Bryansk as an important railway junction and an evacuation point is highlighted. 18 hospitals were additionally organized by joint efforts in Bryansk at the very beginning of the war in addition to the already existing military hospital (a total of 1300 cots). At the same time, the key role of the All-Russian City Council for helping sick and wounded combatants in financing and maintaining a number of medical institutions is shown. The activities of the Bryansk Committee of the Red Cross, which coordinated the activities of all government and public organizations in the territory of the above-mentioned uyezds, are also characterized. The author mentions the Committee’s information concerning the hospitals that came up after the war outbreak. The activities of the Ladies’ Circle, which was engaged in both medical and charitable assistance, are especially noted. The article pays particular attention to the documents of the Bryansk military hospital as the main medical institution in the wartime conditions.

Death of Miss Lucie Odier

1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (244) ◽  
pp. 35-36
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
Visiting Nurses ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
First World

On 6 December the ICRC was grieved to lose one of its longestserving members, Miss Lucie Odier, in her 99th year.Born in Geneva, Miss Odier obtained her nursing diploma in 1914; she thereafter unceasingly did credit to her profession, particularly by devoting herself to the care of military internees and civilian refugees in Switzerland during the First World War (1914–1918) and later to victims of the pandemic Spanish flu. In 1920 she was assigned to direct the Geneva Red Cross social hygiene dispensary and its visiting nurses service. Her exceptional work and modesty were recognized by all.

Marcel, Gabriel (1889–1973)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Healthy Man ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Marcel was a distinguished French playwright and music critic as well as philosopher. It was he who coined the term ’existentialism’, although he was reluctant to be pigeon-holed a ’Christian existentialist’. Born into a well-off family of civil servants, Marcel – never a healthy man – worked for the Red Cross during the First World War, an experience which shaped his view of human relationships and confirmed a religious conviction that led to conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1929. After an early flirtation with F.H. Bradley’s idealism, Marcel independently developed a phenomenology of human existence and a religious conception of being similar, in several respects, to those of Karl Jaspers and Martin Buber. He was much in demand as a lecturer in his later years.

scholarly journals Forgoten authores Nikica Bovolini a contribution to illuminating an unknown literary work

2016 ◽  
pp. 181-187
Author(s):  
Vera Crljic
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The paper deals with the work of the little-known writer Nikica Bovolini (Dubrovnik, 1899 - Belgrade, 1975). She published a book of short stories entitled Between Light and Darkness (Izmedju svijetla i tmine), in Dubrovnik, in 1921. The copy of this book kept in the holdings of the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade is unique because it contains a handwritten addition - the autograph of a poem entitled To the Serbian Warrior (Srpskom ratniku), signed by the authoress. In this poem, dated in Dubrovnik in 1918, written at the end of the First World War, the young poetess Nikica Bovolini expresses sincere admiration for the Serbian soldier as a liberator of the Adriatic. The short stories in this collection were written at the end of the Great War or immediately after it, mostly inspired by the struggle for freedom and unification of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well as by the importance of educating young generations and the development of science in creating a better society. In periodical publications between the two world wars appeared a small number of her poems and three articles that were not of literary character. The full extent of her creativity is unknown. Nikica Bovolini was from the first generation of nurses that graduated from the School of Nursing of the Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, founded in 1921 in Belgrade. As an instructor and assistant to the headmistress of the School of Nursing she significantly contributed to the organization and education of nurses in Yugoslavia after the First World War.

scholarly journals Mobilising the Red Cross Journal: A Charity’s Periodical in Wartime

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
Marjorie Gehrhardt
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First World

The first issue of the Red Cross Journal was published in January 1914, only eight months before the outbreak of the First World War. This article explores the impact of the war on this publication, as the work of the charity it represented dramatically expanded over the course of the conflict. How did the Journal survive the war, at a time when the Red Cross was deeply involved in supporting soldiers? This article examines the genesis of this publication and its evolving role during the war. This periodical, we argue, not only helped raise awareness of the work carried out by the Red Cross, but it also served practical purposes in the areas of training and funding. This publication reveals an increasingly critical stance towards the British Empire’s enemies in the war, as well as the need for the British Red Cross Society to foster a sense of unity amongst members posted around the world.

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