Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars

Name: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
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ISBN: 9780691138251

ISBN-10: 0691138257

ISBN-13: 9780691138251

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ethan Pollock

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Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on genetics and physiology, adjudicated controversies about modern physics, and wrote essays on linguistics and political economy. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. But inStalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Figures



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 Battle 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 Soviet System


Notes


Biographical Notes


Acknowledgments


Index