| Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia: Volume 7 Contributor(s): Josephson, Paul R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520074823 ISBN-13: 9780520074828 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $62.37 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1991 Annotation: "Will certainly become one of the standard works on the history of modern scientific institutions."--Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 306.45 |
| LCCN: 91016584 |
| Series: California Studies in the History of Science |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.32" W x 9.32" (1.69 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |