Intelligentsia science
Subtitle: the Russian century, 1860-1960
By: edited by Michael D. Gordin, Karl Hall, and Alexei Kojevnikov
Contributors: Kozhevnikov, A. B.
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser. v. 23; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser. v. 23.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780226304571
Subjects: Naturwissenschaften; Science; Intellektueller; History
Notes: Title from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intelligentsia science : the Russian century, 1860-1960. Introduction : Intelligentsia science inside and outside Russia / Michael D. Gordin and Karl Hall; title: Intelligentsia as social organization. The Heidelberg Circle : German inflections on the professionalization of Russian chemistry in the 1860s / Michael D. Gordin ; Turning pedagogy into a science : teachers and psychologists in late Imperial Russia (1897-1917) / Andy Byford ; Organizational culture and professional identities in the Soviet nuclear industry / Sonja D. Schmid; title: Intelligentsia as political agent. The phenomenon of Soviet science / Alexei Kojevnikov ; The conquest of science : women and science in Russia, 1860-1940 / Olga Valkova ; Wishful science : the persistence of T.D. Lysenko's agrobiology in the politics of science / Nils Roll-Hansen ; Stalin's rocket designers' leap into space : the technical intelligentsia faces the thaw / Slava Gerovitch; title: Intelligentsia as utopia. Taming the primiitve : Elie Metchnikov and his discovery of immune cells / Kirill Rossiianov ; The schooling of Lev Landau : the European context of postrevolutionary Soviet theoretical physics / Karl Hall ; Imagining the cosmos : utopians, mystics, and the popular culture of spaceflight in revolutionary Russia / Asif Siddiqi.