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Science after Stalin: Forging a New Image of Soviet Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2003

Konstantin Ivanov
Konstantin Ivanov
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Abstract

Argument

Post-Stalinist reforms resulted in dramatic changes in the ways of operation of Soviet science: one can say that they altered the very understanding of what science was, or should be, in the socialist society. A new vision came about as a result of political and rhetorical efforts of scientists, who pushed forward their various, often conflicting, agendas acting in accordance with specific rules of Soviet polity. The most visible part of the reform came with the 1961 administrative reorganization of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The related series of changes, however, was much broader and comprehensive, modifying the relationships between science and ideology, politicians and academic researchers, and establishing the very division between fundamental and applied research, which had been strongly rejected during the preceding Stalinist period.

Type
Research Article
Information
Science in Context , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 317 - 338
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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