Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
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20th century russian history
20th century scientific history
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archival research
Author_Paul R. Josephson
california studies in the history of science series
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dialectical materialism
energy
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institutional archives
leningrad
light
modern physics
moscow
motion
national government
physics
political history
political revolution
primary research
russian history
science
scientific history
scientific revolution
second world war
soviet physics
soviet russia
soviet union
space
state power
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- ISBN 9780520074828
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 1991
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses the impact of scientific, cultural, and political revolution on physicists' research and professional aspirations. Political and social revolution in Russia threatened to confound the scientific revolution. Physicists eager to investigate new concepts of space, energy, light, and motion were forced to accommodate dialectical materialism and subordinate their interests to those of the state. They ultimately faced Stalinist purges and the shift of physics leadership to Moscow. This account of scientists cut off from their Western colleagues reveals a little-known part of the history of modern physics.
Paul Josephson is Professor of Political Science at Sarah Lawrence College.
