Stalinist Science / / Nikolai Krementsov.

Some scholars have viewed the Soviet state and science as two monolithic entities--with bureaucrats as oppressors, and scientists as defenders of intellectual autonomy. Based on previously unknown documents from the archives of state and Communist Party agencies and of numerous scientific institutio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1996]
©1997
Year of Publication:1996
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 3 line illus. 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: THE MAKING OF STALINIST SCIENCE
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Russian Science in Transition, 1890-1929
  • CHAPTER 2. The Stalinization of Russian Science, 1929-1939
  • CHAPTER 3. Stalinist Science in Action: The Case of Genetics
  • KEY EVENTS, 1917-1939
  • PART II: STALINIST SCIENCE IN THE 1940S
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 4. World War II and the Sweet Fruits of Victory
  • CHAPTER 5. On the Threshold of the Cold War, 1946-1947
  • CHAPTER 6. The Fateful Year: 1948
  • KEY EVENTS, 1941-1953
  • PART III: THE CONSOLIDATION OF STALINIST SCIENCE
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 7. Talking the Talk: Ritual and Rhetoric
  • CHAPTER 8. Walking the Walk: Education versus Research
  • CHAPTER 9. The Realities of Stalinist Science: Careerism and Institutional Rivalry
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX A: Stalinist Scientific "Newspeak": A Glossary
  • APPENDIX B: Key Figures
  • NOTES
  • NAME INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX