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Format: III, 51 S

Series Statement: Cold War international history project working papers series 33

Language: English

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Format: x, 343 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-19-539548-8

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-0-19-990897-4

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-19-991195-0

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Badehaus ; History

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-29605

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Format: VIII, 269 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-691-12467-4

Content: 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.. - 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. 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. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. 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. Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the perfect symbiosis between power and knowledge

Content: Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written 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

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: 1878-1953 Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič ; Wissenschaftspolitik ; Wissenschaftspolitik ; Bibliografie

URL: Table of contents only

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URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22065

URL: Rezension

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white).

ISBN: 9780190051662 (ebook) :

Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online

Content: The story of the pervasive and resilient Russian bathhouse (banya) offers new perspectives on the evolution of Russian identity, conceptions of health and hygiene, and forms of community, sexuality, and sociability. The meanings that have formed around the banya over its thousand-year history make it a unique prism through which to understand the effects of broad social, economic, and political changes on the everyday lives of Russians and to understand how Russians have seemed at times barbaric and at times enlightened to outsiders. Sources ranging from the earliest recorded Russian chronicles to recent feature films, from municipal codes to highbrow Russian literature, illustrate the ways in which the banya, whether in Russia, in the Russian diaspora, or in the imagination of outsiders, has been a place to get clean and a space for intrigue, intimacy, violence, and sex.

Note: Also issued in print: 2019.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780195395488

Language: English

Subjects: History

URL: Oxford scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (288 p.) : , 15 halftones.

ISBN: 9781400843756

Content: 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. 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. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. 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. Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the perfect symbiosis between power and knowledge. Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , FIGURES -- , CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Stalin, Science, and Politics after the Second World War -- , CHAPTER 2 “A MARXIST SHOULD NOT WRITE LIKE THAT” The Crisis on the “Philosophical Front” -- , CHAPTER 3 “THE FUTURE BELONGS TO MICHURIN” The Agricultural Academy Session of 1948 -- , CHAPTER 4 “WE CAN ALWAYS SHOOT THEM LATER” Physics, Politics, and the Atomic Bomb -- , CHAPTER 5 “A BATTLE OF OPINIONS” Stalin Intervenes in Linguistics -- , CHAPTER 6 “ATTACK THE DETRACTORS WITH CERTAINTY OF TOTAL SUCCESS” The Pavlov Session of 1950 -- , CHAPTER 7 “EVERYONE IS WAITING” Stalin and the Economic Problems of Communism -- , CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION Science and the Fate of the Soviet System -- , NOTES -- , BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843756