Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars / Ethan Pollock.

Author/creator Pollock, Ethan, 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index.
LCCN 2005035125
ISBN0691124671 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691124674

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Joyner General Stacks HX541 .P63 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold