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Article: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
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- Canadian Slavonic Papers
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Ethan Pollock. Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. Princeton: University Press, 2006. 269 pp. Biographical notes. Index. $47.20, cloth.
The relationship of Soviet science and state in the "late Stalinist" period, usually defined as 1945-53, has long been a favourite subject of historians and other scholars. Traditionally, the "Lysenkoization" of biology has been understood as the complete politicization of science, with the Soviet atomic bomb project interpreted as lending power and autonomy to physicists. The seeming contrast between the two stories has itself long stimulated analysis and puzzlement. That politically-inspired debates existed in other late Stalinist fields of knowledge has ...