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. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 89.
Pàgina xix
... later Russian) 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 ...
... later Russian) 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 ...
Pàgina 3
... later, around 1900, the debate was still alive in Russia over whether the country should industrialize or remain agricultural, even as industrialization was already developing apace with foreign capital and imported technologies, but ...
... later, around 1900, the debate was still alive in Russia over whether the country should industrialize or remain agricultural, even as industrialization was already developing apace with foreign capital and imported technologies, but ...
Pàgina 7
... later he came to consider those purchases a mistake and to think that much better results could have been achieved had the resources been directed to the development of native industrial production from the very beginning of the war ...
... later he came to consider those purchases a mistake and to think that much better results could have been achieved had the resources been directed to the development of native industrial production from the very beginning of the war ...
Pàgina 8
... later added three more departments: Incendiaries and Flame Throwers, Gas Masks, and Acids. The first tests of shells filled with chlorine took place in June 1915. Industrial production of chlorine started in early 1916 and of phosgene later ...
... later added three more departments: Incendiaries and Flame Throwers, Gas Masks, and Acids. The first tests of shells filled with chlorine took place in June 1915. Industrial production of chlorine started in early 1916 and of phosgene later ...
Pàgina 9
... Later Ipatieff became a chief organizer of the Soviet chemical industry and military research and occupied responsible posts in the revolutionary Bolshevik government. After 1930 he lived and worked in the United States. [Courtesy ...
... Later Ipatieff became a chief organizer of the Soviet chemical industry and military research and occupied responsible posts in the revolutionary Bolshevik government. After 1930 he lived and worked in the United States. [Courtesy ...
Continguts
1 | |
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 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists A. B. Kozhevnikov Previsualització limitada - 2004 |
Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists A. B. Kozhevnikov Previsualització limitada - 2004 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Academy of Sciences Academy’s administrative Agitprop Aleksandr Aleksandrov Archive atomic bomb Atomnyi authorities band theory became Beria biology Bohr Bolshevik Central Committee chemical colleagues collectivist collectivization Commissariat communist country’s criticism cultural revolution developed Dirac director discussion diskussiia Ehrenfest electrons Emilio Segrè excitation exciton experimental field Fock Frenkel Germany helium ideological important industrial Ipatieff Joffe Kapitza Kharkov kritika i samokritika Kurchatov laboratory Landau later lattice Leningrad letter linguistics liquid Lysenko major Malenkov Marxist mathematical meeting metals military Moscow University Nikolai nuclear official Optical Institute organized oxygen particles party Peierls Petrograd philosophical phonons physicists political politicians problem production proposal purges quantum mechanics quasiparticles regime research institutes revolutionary role Rozhdestvensky Russian Sakharov scientific scientists Sergei Sergei Vavilov social socialist society solid Soviet physicists Soviet science Soviet Union Stalin Stalinist superfluidity Tamm theoretical physics Timiriazev tion UFTI uranium Vavilov Vernadsky Yakov Frenkel Zhdanov