Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
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Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

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Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

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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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
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 un

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  7. Plates
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. The Politics of Tsarist Physics
  11. The Russian Revolution and the Search for a National Science Policy1
  12. 3 The Russian Association of Physicists and the Founding of the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute
  13. The Flowering of Soviet Physics: National Achievements and International Aspirations During the New Economic Policy
  14. Physics During the First Five-Year Plan: Industrialization and Stalinist Science Policy
  15. Cultural Revolution and the Natural Sciences
  16. Theoretical Physics: Dramatis Personae
  17. Theoretical Physics: Dialectical Materialism and Philosophical Disputes
  18. The Great Terror and the Assault on the Leningrad Physics Community
  19. Epilogue
  20. Appendix A: The History and Politics of Soviet Physics
  21. Appendix B: The Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute
  22. Appendix C: Publication
  23. Notes
  24. Selected Bibliography
  25. Index