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050 00 $aHX541$b.P63 2006
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100 1 $aPollock, Ethan,$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005087518
245 10 $aStalin and the Soviet Science Wars /$cEthan Pollock.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $aviii, 269 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tIntroduction : Stalin, science, and politics after the Second World War -- $gCh. 2.$t"A Marxist should not write like that" : the crisis on the "philosophical front" -- $gCh. 3.$t"The future belongs to Michurin" : the agricultural academy session of 1948 -- $gCh. 4.$t"We can always shoot them later" : physics, politics, and the atomic bomb -- $gCh. 5.$t"A battle of opinions" : Stalin intervenes in linguistics -- $gCh. 6.$t"Attack the detractors with certainty of total success" : the Pavlov session of 1950 -- $gCh. 7.$t"Everyone is waiting" : Stalin and the economic problems of communism -- $gCh. 8.$tConclusion : science and the fate of the Soviet system.
520 1 $a"Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this book shows that Stalin's forays into scholarship can be understood only within the context of international tensions, institutional conflicts, and the growing uncertainty about the proper relationship between scientific knowledge and Party-dictated truths. The nature of Stalin's interventions makes clear that more was at stake than high politics: these science wars were about asserting that the Party was rational and modern, and about codifying the Soviet worldview in a battle for the hearts and minds of people around the globe during the early Cold War. Ultimately, however, the effort to develop a scientific basis for Soviet ideology undermined the system's legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCommunism and science$zSoviet Union.
650 0 $aScience and state$zSoviet Union.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111287
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125847
600 10 $aStalin, Joseph,$d1878-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044789
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005035125.html
852 00 $bglx$hHX541$i.P63 2006