LEADER 03417nam 22006014a 450 001 9910956599103321 005 20251117115536.0 010 $a1-60344-726-1 010 $a1-58544-882-6 035 $a(CKB)111087028236566 035 $a(OCoLC)614582750 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10046117 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000242154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11203632 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000242154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299985 035 $a(PQKB)10116883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037729 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037729 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10046117 035 $a(OCoLC)53978493 035 $a(BIP)42490627 035 $a(BIP)8024479 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087028236566 100 $a20021115d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience for the masses $ethe Bolshevik state, public science, and the popular imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-1934 /$fJames T. Andrews 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCollege Station, Tex. $cTexas A&M University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 1 $aEastern European studies ;$vno. 22 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-58544-247-X 327 $aCOVER -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. 330 $aAfter the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia's new leaders recognized the tantamount importance of teaching science to the masses in order to spread enlightenment and reinforce the basic tenets of Marxism. However, it was not until the first Five Year Plan and the cultural revolution of 1928-32 that a radical break from Russia's tsarist past was marked. Here, James T. Andrews presents a comprehensive history of the early Rolshevik popularization of science in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Andrews initially focuses on the growth of scientific societies in late Imperial Russia. Pre-Revolutionary science popularizers and associations continued to operate until 1928, their efforts appealing to the "popular imagination" and resonating with the interests of average Russians. Sadly, after Stalin seized power, scientists were reduced to serving industry and the propagandistic ends of Stalinism. Andrews has mined materials from previously untouched Russian archives, newspapers, scientific journals of the era, and questionnaires to show how Soviet citizens shaped the programs of science popularizers and even the agendas of communists. Underscoring the need to take care when analyzing historical and political phenomena, Andrews concludes that nothing was simple or absolute in Soviet Russia. 410 0$aEastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ;$vno. 22. 606 $aScience and state$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aScience$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aScience and state$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a509.47 700 $aAndrews$b James T.$f1961-$01864899 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956599103321 996 $aScience for the masses$94473001 997 $aUNINA