Physics and politics in revolutionary Russia /
Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics--or, more aptly, science under stress--in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses the...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1991.
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| Cyfres: | California studies in the history of science.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Plates
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Politics of Tsarist Physics
- 2. The Russian Revolution and the Search for a National Science Policy
- 3. The Russian Association of Physicists and the Founding of the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute
- 4. The Flowering of Soviet Physics: National Achievements and International Aspirations During the New Economic Policy
- 5. Physics During the First Five-Year Plan: Industrialization and Stalinist Science Policy
- 6. Cultural Revolution and the Natural Sciences
- 7. Theoretical Physics: Dramatis Personae
- 8. Theoretical Physics: Dialectical Materialism and Philosophical Disputes
- 9. The Great Terror and the Assault on the Leningrad Physics Community
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: The History and Politics of Soviet Physics
- Appendix B: The Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute
- Appendix C: Publication
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index