Author: United States. Joint Publications Research ServicePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Short Biographies of Selected Soviet Scientists
Author: United States. Joint Publications Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Biographies of Selected Soviet Scientists
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Following are translations of the biographies of those selected Soviet scientists whose names are listed in the table of contents. Bibliographic information on the sources of these biographies is contained with each item.
Biographies of Selected Soviet Scientists
Author: United States. Joint Publications Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Biographies of Soviet Scientists (Selected Translations).
Author: Buried Glory
Author: Istvan HargittaiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199985596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A chronicle of the lives of twelve notable and celebrated Soviet scientists from the Cold War era, a time of great scientific achievement in the USSR.
Biographies of Soviet Scientists
Author: United States. Joint Publications Research ServicePublisher:
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Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Soviet Men of Science
Author: Ivan TurkevičRethinking the Soviet Experience
Author: Stephen F. CohenPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195040163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Written in 1985, this book cuts through the Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and later political realities. The author probes Soviet history, society, and politics to explain how the U.S.S.R. remained stable from revolution through the mid-1980s.
Stalin and the Bomb
Author: David HollowayPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300164459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
The classic and “utterly engrossing” study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs). For forty years the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Then, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, David Holloway pulled back the Iron Curtain with his “marvelous, groundbreaking study” Stalin and the Bomb (The New Yorker). How did the Soviet Union build its atomic and hydrogen bombs? What role did espionage play? How did the American atomic monopoly affect Stalin's foreign policy? What was the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's political leaders? David Holloway answers these questions by tracing the dramatic story of Soviet nuclear policy from developments in physics in the 1920s to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950s. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program―environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons.
Science in Russia and the Soviet Union
Author: Loren R. GrahamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521287890
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that reader. The history of Russian and Soviet science is a story of remarkable achievements and frustrating failures. That history is presented here in a comprehensive form, and explained in terms of its social and political context. Major sections include the tsarist period, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the relationship between science and Soviet society, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual scientific disciplines. The book also discusses the changes brought to science in Russia and other republics by the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s.