Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Pollock Paperback
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Pollock Paperback Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved…
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Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Pollock Paperback
Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on genetics and physiology, adjudicated controversies about modern physics, and wrote essays on linguistics and political economy.
Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the But in Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another.
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