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Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars

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Description for Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Paperback. 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. This book demonstrates that Stalin was determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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 in Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact determined ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691138251
SKU
V9780691138251
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About Ethan Pollock
Ethan Pollock is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.

Reviews for Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
Honorable Mention for the 2008 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Shortlisted for the 2007 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize "This is a very accessible and sometimes astonishing study of what happens when politicians attempt to mould the culture and intellectual life of a society to justify their ideologies... It's a fascinating ... Read more

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