Stalin's great science : the times and adventures of Soviet physicists
Alexei Kojevnikov (Author)
"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. This book 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, London, Singapore, 2004
History
xxiii, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
9781860944192, 9781860944208, 1860944191, 1860944205
57250781
The Great War and the Invention of Soviet Science; Socialist, or Big Science; Freedom, Collectivism, and Electrons; Lev Landau's Wanderjahre, or Theoretical Physics in the Context of Cultural Revolution; Scientist Under Stalin's Patronage: The Case of Piotr Kapitza; "To Catch up and to Surpass..."; President of Stalin's Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov; Games of Soviet Democracy; Ideological Passions; Collective Excitations; Dialogues About Knowledge and Power in Totalitarian Political Culture