Stalinist Science
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 25, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780691028774
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History Of Science; History of ideas, intellectual history; Marxism & Communism; Stalin, Joseph,; Science And Public Policy; Science; Biography / Autobiography; Soviet Union; Science/Mathematics; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; General; Stalin, Joseph; History; 1879-1953; 20th century; Communism
Description: Some scholars have viewed the Soviet state and science as two monolithic entities - with bureaucrats as oppressors, and scientists as defenders of intellectual autonomy. Based on previously unknown documents from the archives of state and Communist Party agencies and of numerous scientific institutions, Stalinist Science shows that this picture is oversimplified.

In fact, a symbiosis of state bureaucrats and scientists established a much more terrifying system of control over the scientific community than any critic of Soviet totalitarianism had feared. Some scientists, on the other hand, developed more elaborate devices to avoid and exploit this control system than any advocate of academic freedom could have reasonably hoped.