LEADER 06120oam 22012734a 450 001 996248120103316 005 20230719194811.0 010 $a1-4008-4375-8 024 7 $a2027/heb05287 035 $a(CKB)2660000000000152 035 $a(dli)HEB05287 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10357687 035 $a(PQKB)11110214 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6532280 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6532280 035 $a(OCoLC)558446144 035 $a(OCoLC)1245420175 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_83448 035 $a(DE-B1597)581242 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400843756 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000006856267 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000000152 100 $a20120529d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStalin and the Soviet Science Wars$fEthan Pollock 205 $a2nd print. and 1st pbk print. 210 1$aOxford :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009. 215 $a1 online resource (269 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-691-12467-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Stalin, science, and politics after the Second World War -- "A Marxist should not write like that": the crisis on the "philosophical front" -- "The future belongs to Michurin": the agricultural academy session of 1948 -- "We can always shoot them later": physics, politics, and the atomic bomb -- "Battles of opinions and open criticism": Stalin intervenes in linguistics -- "Attack the detractors with certainty of total success": the Pavlov session of 1950 -- "Everyone is waiting": Stalin and the economic problems of communism -- Conclusion: science and the fate of the Stalinist system. 330 $aBetween 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on genetics and physiology, adjudicated controversies about modern physics, and wrote essays on linguistics and political economy. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. But in Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the perfect symbiosis between power and knowledge. Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written book shows that Stalin's forays into scholarship can be understood only within the context of international tensions, institutional conflicts, and the growing uncertainty about the proper relationship between scientific knowledge and Party-dictated truths. The nature of Stalin's interventions makes clear that more was at stake than high politics: these science wars were about asserting that the Party was rational and modern, and about codifying the Soviet worldview in a battle for the hearts and minds of people around the globe during the early Cold War. Ultimately, however, the effort to develop a scientific basis for Soviet ideology undermined the system's legitimacy. 410 0$aACLS Fellows? publications. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aPolityka naukowa$zZwia?zek Radziecki$2jhpk 606 $aKomunizm i nauka$zZwia?zek Radziecki$2jhpk 607 $aZwia?zek Radziecki$xpolityka i rza?dy$y1936-1953$2jhpk 610 $aAcademy of Medical Sciences. 610 $aArmenian scholars. 610 $aBekhterev Institute. 610 $aBiriukov, Dmitrii Andreevich. 610 $aCold War. 610 $aCultural Revolution. 610 $aEngels, Friedrich. 610 $aGerman philosophy. 610 $aGorbachev, Mikhail. 610 $aHerald of Ancient History. 610 $aHonor Courts. 610 $aHouse of Scientists. 610 $aKrementsov, Nikolai. 610 $aMachism. 610 $aMichurinism. 610 $aMinistry of Education. 610 $aOrgburo (Party committee). 610 $aPolitburo. 610 $aQuestions of Linguistics. 610 $aScience Section (Agitprop). 610 $aSoviet Ethnography. 610 $aSuslov, Mikhail. 610 $aVucinich, Alexander. 610 $aWestern influence. 610 $aagriculture. 610 $aanti-Pavlovians. 610 $aanticosmopolitanism. 610 $abiology discussion. 610 $acapitalism. 610 $acentralized planning. 610 $acollective farms. 610 $acosmopolitanism. 610 $adogmatism. 610 $aeconomic laws. 610 $aeconomists. 610 $aidealism. 610 $alinguistics. 610 $amaterialism. 610 $anational identity. 610 $apatriotism, Soviet. 610 $aphilosophy of science. 610 $aphysics teaching. 610 $apropaganda. 610 $aquantum mechanics. 610 $ascientific discussions. 610 $ashort courses. 610 $atransition to communism. 610 $auncertainty principle. 610 $auniversity physicists. 610 $awages under socialism. 610 $azhdanovshchina. 615 7$aPolityka naukowa 615 7$aKomunizm i nauka 676 $a338.9470609044 686 $a02.10$2bcl 700 $aPollock$b Ethan$f(1969- )$0704144 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248120103316 996 $aStalin and the Soviet science wars$91357466 997 $aUNISA