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Stalin and the Soviet Science WarsEthan Pollock To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8283.htmlBetween 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin 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, Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another."This is a very accessible and sometimes astonishing study of what happens when politicians attempt to mould the culture and intellectual life of a society to justify their ideologies. . . . It's a fascinating study of a leader who genuinely believed that the credibility of 'scientific' socialism was at stake."--Steve Carroll, The Age

Paper | $24.95 / £14.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13825-1Cloth  | $37.50 / £22.50 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12467-4
 




 
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