Stalin and the Soviet science wars [electronic resource] /

Pollock, Ethan, 1969-

Stalin and the Soviet science wars [electronic resource] / Ethan Pollock. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - 269 p. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Fellows’ publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- "Battles of opinions and open criticism": 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.



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Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.

--Soviet Union.--Soviet Union.


Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Communism and science Science and state