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Science in the New Russia
Author | : Loren R. Graham,Irina Dezhina |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2008-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253219886 |
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This analysis of Russian science shows how the Russian science establishment was one of the largest in the world boasting a world-leading space programme and Nobel prizes. However, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the financial supports for the community were eliminated resulting in a 'brain drain'.
Science in Russia and the Soviet Union
Author | : Loren R. Graham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521287898 |
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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 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 1980s and early 1990s.
Science Women and Revolution in Russia
Author | : Koblitz |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781134418060 |
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DATAFIELD Nominated for the History of Women in Science Prize by the http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/History of Science Society
Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
Author | : Paul R. Josephson |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520911475 |
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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 impact of scientific, cultural, and political revolution on physicists' research and professional aspirations. Political and social revolution in Russia threatened to confound the scientific revolution. Physicists eager to investigate new concepts of space, energy, light, and motion were forced to accommodate dialectical materialism and subordinate their interests to those of the state. They ultimately faced Stalinist purges and the shift of physics leadership to Moscow. This account of scientists cut off from their Western colleagues reveals a little-known part of the history of modern physics.
Russia in Search of Itself
Author | : James H. Billington |
Publsiher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-03-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780801879760 |
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Billington describes the contentious discussion occurring all over Russia and across the political spectrum. He finds conflicts raging among individuals as much as between organized groups and finds a deep underlying tension between the Russians' attempts to legitimize their new, nominally democratic identity, and their efforts to craft a new version of their old authoritarian tradition. After showing how the problem of Russian identity was framed in the past, Billington asks whether Russians will now look more to the West for a place in the common European home, or to the East for a new, Eurasian identity.
Science in Moscow
Author | : István Hargittai,Magdolna Hargittai |
Publsiher | : World Scientific Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 981120344X |
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Moscow is the center of science and higher education of Russia and is also an international hub of science. There have been milestone achievements of science in Russia (and the Soviet Union), especially in the areas of physics, chemistry, mathematics, the conquest of space, various technologies and medicine. However, the scientists and inventors often created in isolation and have become less known than their discoveries would justify. At the same time, there is no other city in the world that has so many memorials honoring scientists as Moscow. There is a caveat in that political considerations have often influenced who was remembered and who was not. This book presents statues, memorial plaques, and historical buildings. Not only celebrated excellences are mentioned, but also some of the greats that perished during the years of terror. The book is full of human drama and 750 photos illustrate the narrative. Moscow Scientific follows Budapest Scientific and New York Scientific and is the third in the series about memorials of scientists in great cities of the world.
Russian Modernization
Author | : Markku Kivinen,Brendan G. Humphreys |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020-11-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781000226843 |
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Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies. Taking a fresh view of Russia’s multiple experiences of modernization, it seeks to explain the Putin era in a completely new way. This book explores the paradoxical and contradictory aspects of Russia, analyzing the energy-dependent economy and hybrid political regime, but also religion, welfare, and culture, and their often complex interrelations. Written by a community of both Western and Russian scholars, this book re-affirms the value of social science when confronting a society that has undergone enormous and costly systematic changes. The Russian elites see modernization narrowly as economic and technological competitiveness. The contributors to this volume see contemporary Russia facing a series of antinomies, which are macro-level dilemmas that cannot be abolished, either by philosophical mediation or by immediate political decisions. As such, they are the tension fields that constitute choices for various competing agencies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian studies, transition studies, sociology, social policy, political science, energy policy, cultural studies, and stratification studies. Professionals involved in energy, ecology, and security policy will also find this publication a rich source.
Mythmaking in the New Russia
Author | : Kathleen E. Smith |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801439639 |
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Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian.