Word: czars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of political psychiatry in the Soviet Union has paralleled the rise of Dr. Andrei Snezhnevsky, who since 1962 has been director of the Institute of Psychiatry of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow. Snezhnevsky is the virtual czar of Soviet psychiatry. The standard Soviet theory is that schizophrenia is caused by environmental factors. But in the 1960s Snezhnevsky began promoting his idea that the disease is genetic, permanent and diagnosable even in the absence of such classic symptoms as hallucinations and delusions...
...NOTEBOOK: Stop That Rumor: No, swingman Don Fleming is not related to Harvard's intellectual history czar, Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History...