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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... official censorship ceased to present an obstacle to inquiries into Soviet history, several freshly minted Ph.D.'s declared themselves representatives of a new field, the social history of Soviet science. They burst through the opening ...
... official censorship ceased to present an obstacle to inquiries into Soviet history, several freshly minted Ph.D.'s declared themselves representatives of a new field, the social history of Soviet science. They burst through the opening ...
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... officials also gradually recognized the need to develop or greatly expand the production of aircraft, chemicals, radios, optical devices, and other war-related products requiring cutting-edge scientific knowledge and expertise. The ...
... officials also gradually recognized the need to develop or greatly expand the production of aircraft, chemicals, radios, optical devices, and other war-related products requiring cutting-edge scientific knowledge and expertise. The ...
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... officially excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church. The police entry to campus in order to prevent students from meeting was also illegal, as it violated the principle of university self-governance. In protest of this violation ...
... officially excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church. The police entry to campus in order to prevent students from meeting was also illegal, as it violated the principle of university self-governance. In protest of this violation ...
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... officials of the University, Mikhail Menzbir and Piotr Minakov, resigned from their administrative posts. To reprimand them, the minister of Enlightenment, Lev Kasso, not only accepted their resignations as administrators, but also ...
... officials of the University, Mikhail Menzbir and Piotr Minakov, resigned from their administrative posts. To reprimand them, the minister of Enlightenment, Lev Kasso, not only accepted their resignations as administrators, but also ...
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... official celebrations of the proclaimed founding father of national Russian science—to lobby for the establishment of a large Lomonosov Institute for research in three fields: physics, chemistry, and mineralogy. The proposal received ...
... official celebrations of the proclaimed founding father of national Russian science—to lobby for the establishment of a large Lomonosov Institute for research in three fields: physics, chemistry, and mineralogy. The proposal received ...
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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