By the late 1920s, the government, now headed by Joseph Stalin, had placed
restrictions on all aspects of life, including the arts, and was commissioning artists to produce propagandistic books, posters, and magazines touting Soviet achievement.
The Division
of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath
of life in all its
aspects: control
of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases
of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia;
restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation
of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects
of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease
of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so
on.