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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... University of Georgia, Athens, USA Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia ICP Imperial College Press Published by Imperial College Press 57 Shelton Street Covent Garden.
... University of Georgia, Athens, USA Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia ICP Imperial College Press Published by Imperial College Press 57 Shelton Street Covent Garden.
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... Moscow University defended himself in 1901. Despite the common recognition that chemistry was industrially and economically the most important scientific discipline of the late 19th century, Russian academic chemists took pride in ...
... Moscow University defended himself in 1901. Despite the common recognition that chemistry was industrially and economically the most important scientific discipline of the late 19th century, Russian academic chemists took pride in ...
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... Moscow Higher Technological School, published newspaper appeals to chemists ... Moscow Higher Technological School for the production of war medicaments ... University. In 1915 Zelinsky started working on socalled “passive chemical ...
... Moscow Higher Technological School, published newspaper appeals to chemists ... Moscow Higher Technological School for the production of war medicaments ... University. In 1915 Zelinsky started working on socalled “passive chemical ...
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... Moscow University, its Academic Council, was caught in a conflict between radical students and the police. A student meeting on the university campus in memory of the recently deceased Count Lev Tolstoy was viewed as political, and ...
... Moscow University, its Academic Council, was caught in a conflict between radical students and the police. A student meeting on the university campus in memory of the recently deceased Count Lev Tolstoy was viewed as political, and ...
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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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