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 xi
... [scientific] progress depends very largely on political...democ- racy,” while, on the other hand, “political power, when it is used to suppress free criticism, or when it fails to protect it, can impair the functioning of [social] ...
... [scientific] progress depends very largely on political...democ- racy,” while, on the other hand, “political power, when it is used to suppress free criticism, or when it fails to protect it, can impair the functioning of [social] ...
Pàgina xii
... scientific and democratic as science itself, and the paradox simply did not appear to them because the obvious successes of Soviet science merely confirmed in their eyes the superiority of “Soviet democracy.” Anticommunist ideologues ...
... scientific and democratic as science itself, and the paradox simply did not appear to them because the obvious successes of Soviet science merely confirmed in their eyes the superiority of “Soviet democracy.” Anticommunist ideologues ...
Pàgina xiii
... scientific discourse could be maintained precisely by keeping it separate from the much more dangerous discourse on political, religious, and moral issues (Shapin and Schaffer 1985). Difficult, because the Soviet case is still often ...
... scientific discourse could be maintained precisely by keeping it separate from the much more dangerous discourse on political, religious, and moral issues (Shapin and Schaffer 1985). Difficult, because the Soviet case is still often ...
Pàgina xiv
... scientific breakthroughs of the early 20th century, which included Einstein's relativity theory and quantum mechanics and overturned the existing conceptual order in science, played out in the context of revolutionary Russia of the ...
... scientific breakthroughs of the early 20th century, which included Einstein's relativity theory and quantum mechanics and overturned the existing conceptual order in science, played out in the context of revolutionary Russia of the ...
Pàgina xv
... scientific discoveries and industrial inventions. The same question is then investigated in a case where the Stalinist government organized and managed a scientific and technological project of top state priority, namely the production ...
... scientific discoveries and industrial inventions. The same question is then investigated in a case where the Stalinist government organized and managed a scientific and technological project of top state priority, namely the production ...
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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