Stalin and the scientists
Subtitle: a history of triumph and tragedy 1905-1953
By: Simon Ings
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780802125989; 9780802127594
Subjects: Science and state; Scientists; Science; Influence; Biography; History
Notes: "First published in 2016 in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd."--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-495) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : fuses (1856-1905); title: Part one. Control (1905-1929). Scholars; title: Revolutionaries; title: Entrepreneurs; title: Workers; title: Exploring the mind; title: Understanding evolution; title: Shaping humanity; title: Part two. Power (1929-1941). 'Storming the fortress of science'; title: Eccentrics; title: The primacy of practice; title: Kooperatorka; title: The great patron; title: 'Fascist links'; title: Office politics; title: 'We shall go to the pyre'; title: Part three. Dominion (1941-1953). 'Lucky stiffs'; title: 'Can I go to the reactor?'; title: 'How did anyone dare insult Comrade Lysenko?'; title: Higher nervous activity; title: 'The death agony was horrible'; title: Succession; title: Epilogue : spoil.