Science for the Masses
Subtitle: The Bolshevik State, Public Science, and the Popular Imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-1934 (Eastern European Studies Number Twenty-Two)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781585442478
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; History of science; Marxism & Communism; 20th century; Soviet Union; History: World; Russia; Eastern Europe - General; History; Science; Science and state
Description: "After the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia's new leaders recognized the tantamount importance of teaching science to the masses in order to spread enlightenment and to reinforce the basic tenets of Marxism. However, it was not until the first Five Year Plan and the cultural revolution of 1928-32 that a radical break from Russia's tsarist past was marked. Sadly, after Stalin seized power, enlightenment and science were overwhelmed by ideology and technology as scientists were reduced to serving industry and the propagandistic ends of Stalinism.

"In Science for the Masses, James T. Andrews presents a comprehensive history of the early Bolshevik popularization of science in Russia and the former Soviet Union."--Jacket.