Russian academicians and the revolution
Subtitle: combining professionalism and politics
By: Vera Tolz.
Series: Studies in Russian and East European history and society
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Akademii͡a︡ nauk SSSR -- Biography.; Akademii͡a︡ nauk SSSR -- History.; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
Description: This study of the early Soviet period of the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences takes as its focus 'old academicians' i.e. those distinguished Russian scholars who were members of the academy in October 1917. By examining the post-revolutionary careers of these scholars, the book answers the following questions: What factors helped academicians to adjust to post-revolutionary conditions? On what grounds did they justify their cooperation with the Bolsheviks?

And what was the ideological basis of the regime's policy towards 'old academicians'?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-227) and index.
"In association with Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham."