Author: Paul CocksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Role of the Party in Soviet Science and Technology Policy
Author: Paul CocksThe Role of the Party in Soviet Science and Technology Policy
Author: Paul CocksScience and Technology as an Instrument of Soviet Policy
Author: Mose L. HarveyPublisher: [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Science Policy in the Soviet Union
Author: Stephen FortescuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific research in the USSR, focusing upon such problems as low morale, the lack of moral responsibility felt by the scientific community, and a central governmental resistance to new ideas and technologies.
Science Policy in the Soviet Union
Author: Stephen FortescuePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040184936
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Science Policy in the Soviet Union (1990) examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific research in the USSR. The book adopts the widespread view that Soviet science performs well below capacity and then looks at the institutions and management in the light of this assumption. Low morale and a lack of moral responsibility within the scientific community are highlighted as factors in the poor performance of Soviet science, these being compounded by the problems of centralization and the lack of responsiveness to new demands, technologies and ideas. The author sees de-centralisation as a potential solution, concluding with a commentary on Gorbachev, the obstacles he faced and his awareness of the need for change in the scientific sphere.
Politics and Technology in the Soviet Union
Author: Bruce ParrottPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Stalin's Great Science
Author: A. B. KozhevnikovPublisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 9781860944192
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the freedom of information. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists is an invaluable book that investigates this paradoxical success by following the lives and work of Soviet scientists ? including Nobel Prize-winning physicists Kapitza, Landau, and others ? throughout the turmoil of wars, revolutions, and repression that characterized the first half of Russia's twentieth century.The book examines how scientists operated within the Soviet political order, communicated with Stalinist politicians, built a new system of research institutions, and conducted groundbreaking research under extraordinary circumstances. Some of their novel scientific ideas and theories reflected the influence of Soviet ideology and worldview and have since become accepted universally as fundamental concepts of contemporary science. In the process of making sense of the achievements of Soviet science, the book dismantles standard assumptions about the interaction between science, politics, and ideology, as well as many dominant stereotypes ? mostly inherited from the Cold War ? about Soviet history in general. Science and technology were not only granted unprecedented importance in Soviet society, but they also exerted a crucial formative influence on the Soviet political system itself. Unlike most previous studies, Stalin's Great Science recognizes the status of science as an essential element of the Soviet polity and explores the nature of a special relationship between experts (scientists and engineers) and communist politicians that enabled the initial rise of the Soviet state and its mature accomplishments, until the pact eroded in later years, undermining the communist regime from within.
Soviet and East European Law and the Scientific-Technical Revolution
Author: Gordon B. SmithPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483154335
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Soviet and East European Law and the Scientific-Technical Revolution discusses the various perceptions and understandings of the scientific technical revolution (STR) and its effect on the legal systems of the USSR and the East European nations. This book is composed 11 chapters and begins with a description of the relationship of the STR and law and how law is used as a means of manipulating the STR and directing its development. The succeeding chapters explore the STR in the realm of ideas or doctrine relating to management theory and jurisprudence. These topics are followed by discussions of the constitutional enactments influenced by the STR and the developments of administrative and labor laws. The remaining chapters highlight the tangible results of efforts to shape the STR. These chapters also look into the development of mechanisms for the transfer of technology between the Soviet Union and the Eastern Europe. This book is intended for historians and the general public who are interested in scientific-technical revolution.
Totalitarian Science and Technology
Author: Paul R. JosephsonPublisher: Humanity Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War
Author: Hiroshi IchikawaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781138552456
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ichikawa analyses the complicated interactions among various factors, including the indigenous contradictions in the historical development of science in the Soviet Union; conflicts among the related interest groups; relationships with the political leadership and the military, the role of ideology; and others.