Stalinist Science

by N.L. Krementosov and Nikolai Krementsov

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069102877X
• ISBN13: 9780691028774
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 10.0"