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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Tác giả chính: Josephson, Paul R.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Loạt:California studies in the history of science.
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  • 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