TY  - GEN
T1  - Stalinist science
A1  - Krement͡sov, N. L.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm51493835
AB  - Some scholars have viewed the Soviet state and science as two monolithic entities--with bureaucrats as oppressors, and scientists as defenders of intellectual autonomy. Based on previously unknown documents from the archives of state and Communist Party agencies and of numerous scientific institutions, Stalinist Science shows that this picture is oversimplified. Even the reinstated Science Department within the Central Committee was staffed by a leading geneticist and others sympathetic to conventional science. In fact, a symbiosis of state bureaucrats and scientists established a much more terrifying system of control over the scientific community than any critic of Soviet totalitarianism had feared. Some scientists, on the other hand, developed more elaborate devices to avoid and exploit this control system than any advocate of academic freedom could have reasonably hoped. Nikolai Krementsov argues that the model of Stalinist science, already taking hold during the thirties, was reversed by the need for inter-Allied cooperation during World War II. Science, as a tool for winning the war and as a diplomatic and propaganda instrument, began to enjoy higher status, better funding, and relative autonomy. Even the reinstated Science Department within the Central Committee was staffed by a leading geneticist and others sympathetic to conventional science. However, the onset of the Cold War led to a campaign for eliminating such servility to the West. Then the Western links that had benefited genetics and other sciences during the war and through 1946 became a liability, and were used by Lysenko and others to turn back to the repressive past and to delegitimate whole research directions.
OP  - 371
CN  - Q127.R9 K68 1997eb
SN  - 9781400822140
SN  - 1400822149
SN  - 1400812437
SN  - 9781400812431
SN  - 1282753150
SN  - 9781282753150
SN  - 9786612753152
SN  - 6612753153
SN  - 9780691028774
SN  - 069102877X
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953.
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1879-1953.
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953
KW  - Science : Soviet Union : History : 20th century.
KW  - Soviet Union : Politics and government : 1936-1953.
KW  - Communism : Soviet Union : History : 20th century.
KW  - Sciences : URSS : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - URSS : Politique et gouvernement : 1936-1953.
KW  - Communisme : URSS : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - SCIENCE : Philosophy & Social Aspects.
KW  - Communism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Science
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -