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• catalog abstract "By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that reader. The main theme of the book is the shaping of science and scientific institutions in Russia and the Soviet Union by social, economic, and political factors. Russian society and culture have been strikingly different from the society and culture of Western Europe, where modern science was born, and those differences have influenced not only the organizational and economic framework of Russian and Soviet science, but also the scientific theories themselves. The intellectual pathways of many areas of Russian and Soviet science are dissimilar from those in Western Europe and the United States. The history of Russian and Soviet science is a story of remarkable achievements and frustrating failures. That history is presented here in a comprehensive form, and explained in terms of its social and political context. Major sections include the tsarist period, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the relationship between science and Soviet society, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual scientific disciplines. The book also discusses the changes brought to science in Russia and other republics by the collapse of communism in the late 198Os and early 199Os.".
• catalog contributor b3809463.
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description "By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that reader. The main theme of the book is the shaping of science and scientific institutions in Russia and the Soviet Union by social, economic, and political factors. Russian society and culture have been strikingly different from the society and culture of Western Europe, where modern science was born, and those differences have influenced not only the organizational and economic framework of Russian and Soviet science, but also the scientific theories themselves. The intellectual pathways of many areas of Russian and Soviet science are dissimilar from those in Western Europe and the United States. The history of Russian and Soviet science is a story of remarkable achievements and frustrating failures. That history is presented here in a comprehensive form, and explained in terms of its social and political context. Major sections include the tsarist period, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the relationship between science and Soviet society, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual scientific disciplines. The book also discusses the changes brought to science in Russia and other republics by the collapse of communism in the late 198Os and early 199Os.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The Russian Revolution and the scientific community. 5. The role of dialectical materialism: The authentic phase. 6. Stalinist ideology and the Lysenko affair -- pt. III. Science and Soviet society. 7. Soviet attitudes toward the social and historical study of science. 8. Knowledge and power in Russian and Soviet society. 9. The organizational features of Soviet science -- Appendix. The strengths and weaknesses of Russian and Soviet science. Appendix Chapter A: The physical and mathematical sciences. Appendix Chapter B: The biological sciences, medicine, and technology.".
• catalog extent "x, 321 p., [17] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0521245664".
• catalog identifier "0521287898 (pbk.)".
• catalog isPartOf "Cambridge history of science".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union".
• catalog subject "509.47 20".
• catalog subject "Q127.S696 G729 1993".
• catalog subject "Science Soviet Union History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The Russian Revolution and the scientific community. 5. The role of dialectical materialism: The authentic phase. 6. Stalinist ideology and the Lysenko affair -- pt. III. Science and Soviet society. 7. Soviet attitudes toward the social and historical study of science. 8. Knowledge and power in Russian and Soviet society. 9. The organizational features of Soviet science -- Appendix. The strengths and weaknesses of Russian and Soviet science. Appendix Chapter A: The physical and mathematical sciences. Appendix Chapter B: The biological sciences, medicine, and technology.".
• catalog title "Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".