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Gorelik G. E (Gennadiì† Efimovich) |
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The world of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian physicist's path to freedom / / Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. Bouis |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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0-19-028877-9 |
1-280-50246-0 |
9786610502462 |
1-4237-2024-5 |
0-19-534374-3 |
1-60256-690-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (457 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Physicists - Soviet Union |
Dissenters - Soviet Union |
Human rights workers - Russia (Federation) |
Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: How I Came to Write This Book; Prologue: Pyotr Lebedev: The Pressure of Light and the Pressure of Circumstances; 1 The Emergence of Soviet Physics and the Birth of FIAN; 2 Leonid Mandelshtam: The Teacher and His School; 3 The Year 1937; 4 The Moral Underpinnings of the Soviet Atomic Project; 5 Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's Graduate Student; 6 Sergei Vavilov: The President of the Academy of Sciences; 7 Nuclear Physics under Beria's Command; 8 Russian Physics at the Height of Cosmopolitanism; 9 The Hydrogen Bomb at FIAN; 10 The Installation |
11 The "Heroic" Work at the Installation12 Theoretical Physicists in Soviet Practice; 13 The Physics of Social Responsibility; 14 From Military Physics to Peaceful Cosmology; 15 World Peace and World Science; 16 Reflections on Intellectual Freedom in 1968; 17 Sakharov and |
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