The review of the book “The Clinic of Internal Diseases in the USSR. History in Persons” by V. I. Borodulin (with participation of E. N. Banzelyuk, M. V. Poddubny and A. V. Topolyansky)

The review analyzes the fundamental work of V. I. Borodulin about the history of Internal Disease Clinic in the USSR, based on the biographies of more than fifty prominent Soviet therapeutists; the research is devoted to development of main Soviet therapeutic scientific schools and formation of new scientific and educational clinical disciplines in this field in 1920s-1970s, as well as difficulties and dynamic life of therapeutic elite in the USSR in that period.