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Author:

Pollock, Ethan, 1969-

Title:

Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars / Ethan Pollock.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Communism and science--Soviet Union.
Science and state--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.
Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953.
Wetenschap.
Ideologie.
Communisme.
Sovjet-Unie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Stalin, science, and politics after the Second World War -- "A Marxist should not write like that": the crisis on the "philosophical front" -- "The future belongs to Michurin": the agricultural academy session of 1948 -- "We can always shoot them later": physics, politics, and the atomic bomb -- "A battles of opinions": Stalin intervenes in linguistics -- "Attack the detractors with certainty of total success": the Pavlov session of 1950 -- "Everyone is waiting": Stalin and the economic problems of communism -- Conclusion: science and the fate of the Stalinist system.

ISBN:

9780691124674 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691124671 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62593417

LCCN:

2005035125

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)