Stalin's Great Science: The Times And Adventures Of Soviet PhysicistsWorld Scientific, 23 d’ag. 2004 - 384 pàgines World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the freedom of information. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists is an invaluable book that investigates this paradoxical success by following the lives and work of Soviet scientists — including Nobel Prize-winning physicists Kapitza, Landau, and others — throughout the turmoil of wars, revolutions, and repression that characterized the first half of Russia's twentieth century.The book examines how scientists operated within the Soviet political order, communicated with Stalinist politicians, built a new system of research institutions, and conducted groundbreaking research under extraordinary circumstances. Some of their novel scientific ideas and theories reflected the influence of Soviet ideology and worldview and have since become accepted universally as fundamental concepts of contemporary science. In the process of making sense of the achievements of Soviet science, the book dismantles standard assumptions about the interaction between science, politics, and ideology, as well as many dominant stereotypes — mostly inherited from the Cold War — about Soviet history in general. Science and technology were not only granted unprecedented importance in Soviet society, but they also exerted a crucial formative influence on the Soviet political system itself. Unlike most previous studies, Stalin's Great Science recognizes the status of science as an essential element of the Soviet polity and explores the nature of a special relationship between experts (scientists and engineers) and communist politicians that enabled the initial rise of the Soviet state and its mature accomplishments, until the pact eroded in later years, undermining the communist regime from within. |
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... Academy of Sciences during its major post-war expansion, was primarily responsible for formulating the public image of Soviet science, and mobilized Marxist dialectics in the service of modern science. Conflicts in and about particular ...
... Academy of Sciences during its major post-war expansion, was primarily responsible for formulating the public image of Soviet science, and mobilized Marxist dialectics in the service of modern science. Conflicts in and about particular ...
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... Sciences (1991) 22 (1): 131–164. “President of Stalin's Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov,” Isis (1996) 87: 18–50. “Rituals of Stalinist Culture at Work: Science and the Games xviii Stalin's Great Science.
... Sciences (1991) 22 (1): 131–164. “President of Stalin's Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov,” Isis (1996) 87: 18–50. “Rituals of Stalinist Culture at Work: Science and the Games xviii Stalin's Great Science.
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... Academy of Sciences, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, the American Institute of Physics, the Volkswagen-Stiftung; the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the National Science ...
... Academy of Sciences, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, the American Institute of Physics, the Volkswagen-Stiftung; the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the National Science ...
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... Academy of Sciences), Moscow ARAN SPb—Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Sankt-Peterburgskoe Otdelenie (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg AHQP—Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, Berkeley AIP—Niels Bohr ...
... Academy of Sciences), Moscow ARAN SPb—Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Sankt-Peterburgskoe Otdelenie (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg AHQP—Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, Berkeley AIP—Niels Bohr ...
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... Academy of Sciences, Moscow NBA—Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen RAC—Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Hills, NY RGAKFD—Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov (Russian State Archive of Cinema and Photographic Documents) ...
... Academy of Sciences, Moscow NBA—Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen RAC—Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Hills, NY RGAKFD—Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov (Russian State Archive of Cinema and Photographic Documents) ...
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2 Socialist or Big Science | 23 |
3 Freedom Collectivism and Electrons | 47 |
4 Lev Landaus Wanderjahre or Theoretical Physics in the Context of Cultural Revolution | 73 |
The Case of Piotr Kapitza | 99 |
6 To Catch Up and To Surpass | 126 |
The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov | 158 |
8 Games of Soviet Democracy | 186 |
9 Modernist Science Ideological Passions | 217 |
10 Collective Excitations | 245 |
11 Dialogues about Knowledge and Power in Totalitarian Political Culture | 276 |
Conclusion | 301 |
Bibliography | 307 |
Name Index | 343 |
Subject Index | 349 |
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