Cholera revolts: a class struggle we may not like
Cholera revolts: a class struggle we may not like
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10.1080/03071022.2017.1290365
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2017-05-01
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Cohn, Samuel Kline
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作者：
Cohn, Samuel Kline
很少有人对霍乱起义进行过比较研究，当然也没有研究过从亚洲俄罗斯到魁北克的广阔地域，或者从19世纪30年代到20世纪世纪的第一次欧洲霍乱浪潮。相反，学者们专注于19世纪30年代的第一次欧洲霍乱浪潮，并倾向于在个别国家的政治背景下解释霍乱的社会暴力，尽管这些骚乱在从沙俄到纽约市的政治景观中存在巨大差异，但也有类似的恐惧和阴谋论，即精英们发明霍乱来消灭穷人。此外，霍乱的社会毒素的历史与目前流行病为什么会产生对他人的指责和暴力的概括背道而驰。霍乱骚乱仍在继续，在意大利和俄罗斯，霍乱已经不再神秘，但它在地理上变得更加广泛，更加恶毒，更具破坏性。文章接着提出了一个问题，为什么左翼历史学家没有研究霍乱引发的阶级斗争，有1万人的骚乱，谋杀了国家官员和医生，摧毁了医院，市政霍尔斯，在顿涅茨克的情况下，一整座城市。最后，本文将欧洲的霍乱经历与2014年西非埃博拉疫情的经历进行了比较。
Few have studied cholera revolts comparatively, and certainly not over the vast terrain from Asiatic Russia to Quebec or across time from the first European cholera wave of the 1830s to the twentieth century. Scholars have instead concentrated on the first European cholera wave in the 1830s and have tended to explain cholera's social violence within the political contexts of individual nations, despite these riots raging across vast differences in political landscapes from Czarist Russia to New York City but with similar fears and conspiracy theories of elites inventing cholera to cull populations of the poor. Moreover, the history of cholera's social toxins runs against present generalizations on why epidemics spawn blame and violence against others. Cholera riots continued, and in Italy and Russia became geographically more widespread, vicious, and destructive long after the disease had lost its mystery. The article then poses the question of why historians on the left have not studied the class struggles provoked by cholera, with riots of 10,000, murdering state officials and doctors, destroying hospitals, town halls, and in the case of Donetsk, an entire city. Finally, the article draws parallels between Europe's cholera experiences and those in West Africa with Ebola in 2014.