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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Pàgina viii
... Bolshevik Russia 80 A Quantum Rebel 85 Theoretics and the Cultural Revolution 88 The Kharkov School 92 5. Scientist under Stalin's Patronage: The Case of Piotr Kapitza 99 Expatriate 100 Prisoner 106 Missionary 109 Client 114 Minister ...
... Bolshevik Russia 80 A Quantum Rebel 85 Theoretics and the Cultural Revolution 88 The Kharkov School 92 5. Scientist under Stalin's Patronage: The Case of Piotr Kapitza 99 Expatriate 100 Prisoner 106 Missionary 109 Client 114 Minister ...
Pàgina ix
... Bolshevik Pact with the Specialists, and Its Failure The Stalinist Pact with the Intelligentsia Post-War Negotiations about Power The Post-Stalin Settlement Conclusion Bibliography Name Index Subject Index 9. 217 219 226 229 235 240 245 ...
... Bolshevik Pact with the Specialists, and Its Failure The Stalinist Pact with the Intelligentsia Post-War Negotiations about Power The Post-Stalin Settlement Conclusion Bibliography Name Index Subject Index 9. 217 219 226 229 235 240 245 ...
Pàgina xiv
... Bolshevik party and researchoriented scientists. The resulting Soviet system of research institutes marked the beginning of 20th century big science with its characteristic nexus between advanced research, government, and the military ...
... Bolshevik party and researchoriented scientists. The resulting Soviet system of research institutes marked the beginning of 20th century big science with its characteristic nexus between advanced research, government, and the military ...
Pàgina 6
... Bolshevik government.2 Foreign investors dominated the Russian civilian industry, with the usual consequence that it relied on imported technologies and know-how rather than on independent research and expertise. Military industry and ...
... Bolshevik government.2 Foreign investors dominated the Russian civilian industry, with the usual consequence that it relied on imported technologies and know-how rather than on independent research and expertise. Military industry and ...
Pàgina 9
... Bolshevik government. After 1930 he lived and worked in the United States. [Courtesy: Northwestern University Archives.] many complaints among Russian scientists, but none also contributed so. The Great War and the Invention of Soviet ...
... Bolshevik government. After 1930 he lived and worked in the United States. [Courtesy: Northwestern University Archives.] many complaints among Russian scientists, but none also contributed so. The Great War and the Invention of Soviet ...
Continguts
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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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