Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
Autor Ethan Pollocken Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 2008
Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written book shows that Stalin's forays into scholarship can be understood only within the context of international tensions, institutional conflicts, and the growing uncertainty about the proper relationship between scientific knowledge and Party-dictated truths. The nature of Stalin's interventions makes clear that more was at stake than high politics: these science wars were about asserting that the Party was rational and modern, and about codifying the Soviet worldview in a battle for the hearts and minds of people around the globe during the early Cold War. Ultimately, however, the effort to develop a scientific basis for Soviet ideology undermined the system's legitimacy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780691138251
ISBN-10: 0691138257
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 15 halftones.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
ISBN-10: 0691138257
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 15 halftones.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
Notă biografică
Ethan Pollock is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.
Descriere
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.