Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars /
Pollock, Ethan,1969-
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) 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 -- "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.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
Communism and science
Science and state