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On Comrade Timiryazev’s attitude towards contemporary science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2022

Boris M. Hessen  and
Vasiliy P. Egorshin
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Science in Context , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 143 - 153
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1

The following is a translation of Gessen & Egorshin 1927b: 188–199. Hessen & Egorshin’s original references have been replaced by English where possible. References to texts not cited by Hessen & Egorshin have been provided by the translator. This translation was completed with the aid of translation software [Translator’s Note; hereafter, “TN”].

2

Vasiliy P. Egorshin (1898–1985) was a Soviet physicist and historian and philosopher of science. He worked as a professor of physics at Moscow State University, and specialized in the history of astronomy from a dialectical materialist point of view. A co-author with Hessen on several articles in the late 1920s, by the 1930s, Egorshin became one of Hessen’s major opponents, accusing him of “anti-Marxism,” “idealism” and “Menshevism” (Josephson 1991, 208; Korsakov, et al. 2015, 90–91) [TN].

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