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
... Discussions in 188 Sciences, 1947–1952 Exercises on the Philosophical Front 191 Games of Intra-Party Democracy 197 Opening Pandora's Box 203 Resolving the Controversy and Defining Consensus 207 Soviet Ideology and Science 214 10. 11 ...
... Discussions in 188 Sciences, 1947–1952 Exercises on the Philosophical Front 191 Games of Intra-Party Democracy 197 Opening Pandora's Box 203 Resolving the Controversy and Defining Consensus 207 Soviet Ideology and Science 214 10. 11 ...
Pàgina ix
... Discussion Paradigm Shift, Soviet Style Changing Guards Collective Excitations Electrons Free and Trapped Arrested Electrons and the Polaron The Exciton and the Collectivist Alternative to Band Theory The Roton and Collective ...
... Discussion Paradigm Shift, Soviet Style Changing Guards Collective Excitations Electrons Free and Trapped Arrested Electrons and the Polaron The Exciton and the Collectivist Alternative to Band Theory The Roton and Collective ...
Pàgina xv
... discuss the relationship between science and ideology under Stalin, often mistakenly characterized as one of simple ... discussions in other fields, in particular linguistics and physics, produced entirely different results. Chapter 10 ...
... discuss the relationship between science and ideology under Stalin, often mistakenly characterized as one of simple ... discussions in other fields, in particular linguistics and physics, produced entirely different results. Chapter 10 ...
Pàgina xviii
... discussions and brainstorming sessions within this closely-knit group, which at the time included Daniel Alexandrov, Olga Elina, Nikolai Krementsov, Kirill Rossiianov, and Irina Sirotkina, provided me with the most intensive mutual ...
... discussions and brainstorming sessions within this closely-knit group, which at the time included Daniel Alexandrov, Olga Elina, Nikolai Krementsov, Kirill Rossiianov, and Irina Sirotkina, provided me with the most intensive mutual ...
Pàgina 7
... discuss the technical component of the war. Among other topics, the meeting briefly considered the use of “suffocating and intoxicating gases in shells,” which the majority of officers opposed arguing that “such methods can be regarded ...
... discuss the technical component of the war. Among other topics, the meeting briefly considered the use of “suffocating and intoxicating gases in shells,” which the majority of officers opposed arguing that “such methods can be regarded ...
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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