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Essays of a Soviet Scientists

Author : Vitaliĭ Iosifovich Golʹdanskiĭ
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781563964541
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Essays of a Soviet Scientists written by Vitaliĭ Iosifovich Golʹdanskiĭ and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays, articles, and interviews that make up Essays of a Soviet Scientist offer a revealing portrait of Vitalii Gol'danskii and his generation. Here are Gol'danskii's reminiscences of his extraordinary scientific mentors and colleagues, his reflections on science's obligations to humanity, his writings on the arts and the media, his courageous and passionate arguments against nuclear weapons, and his warnings about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in today's Russia. Through the compassionate, authoritative perspective of Vitalii Gol'danskii, we find in the life of a man and a nation many lessons for us all. The role of science and the scientist in society...the oppressive influence of authoritarianism on a nation's intelligentsia...scientific integrity versus political expedience...the endurance of a people riding the great emotional pendulum of history...Essays of a Soviet Scientist has much to say about these and other crucial matters.

Politics and the Soviet System

Author : Thomas F. Remington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349098205
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Soviet System written by Thomas F. Remington and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on topics pertaining to Soviet propaganda and policy making. Among the essays, there is a study of the view of international relations presented by Soviet TV news, a survey of development in comparative communist studies, and an analysis of recent changes.

The Structure of Soviet History

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195340549
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Soviet History written by Ronald Grigor Suny and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by eminent historian Ronald Grigor Suny, this unique collection of primary documents and important scholarly articles frames both the revolutionary changes and broad continuities in Soviet history. Organized chronologically and covering political, social, and cultural history from a variety of viewpoints, selections include official pronouncements and dissident manifestos, public speeches, private letters, and previously un-translated documents.

A Soviet Heretic

Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226978666
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book A Soviet Heretic written by Yevgeny Zamyatin and published by . This book was released on 1974-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR

Author : S. Y. Braude
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400728336
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR by : S. Y. Braude

Download or read book A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR written by S. Y. Braude and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR makes descriptions of the antennas and instrumentation used in the USSR, the astronomical discoveries, as well as interesting personal backgrounds of many of the early key players in Soviet radio astronomy available in the English language for the first time. This book is a collection of memoirs recounting an interesting but largely still dark era of Soviet astronomy. The arrangement of the essays is determined primarily by the time when radio astronomy studies began at the institutions involved. These include the Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN), Gorkii State University and the affiliated Physical-Technical Institute (GIFTI), Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical institute (GAISH) and Space Research Institute (IKI), the Department of Radio Astronomy of the Main Astronomical Observatory in Pulkovo (GAO), Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (SSR), Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (IRE), Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation Institute (IZMIRAN), Siberian Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation (SibIZMIRAN), the Radio Astrophysical Observatory of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and Leningrad State University. A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR is a fascinating source of information on a past era of scientific culture and fields of research including the Soviet SETI activities. Anyone interested in the recent history of science will enjoy reading this volume.

Watching the Bear

Author : Gerald K. Haines
Publisher : Central Intelligence Agency
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Watching the Bear written by Gerald K. Haines and published by Central Intelligence Agency. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents papers from the conference: "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991" at Princeton University on 9-10 March 2001. Focuses on the organizational evolution of the CIA's analysis of the Soviet economic, political, military, and scientific and technological developments during the Cold War. Assesses the extent to which Western analyses of the Soviet Union may have influenced the USSR's policy making process.

Beyond Sovietology

Author : Susan Gross Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548479X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Sovietology written by Susan Gross Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume - a product of the Soviet Domestic Politics workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council - marks an end and a new beginning. The end, of course, is that of Sovietology, now permanently "overtaken by events". The beginning encompasses not only a radical multiplication of subjects for analysis - the post-Soviet states - but also the arrival of a new generation of scholars entering the field at its turning point. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, they bring fresh contemporary social scientific questions and methods to an unprecedentedly accessible universe of diverse social groups and societies once subsumed under the Soviet rubric. Their work enriches not only post-Soviet studies but the entire range of comparativist work in the social sciences. Among the authors included here are Jane Dawson, Ellen Hamilton, Joel Hellman, Mark Saroyan, Joseph Schull and Michael Smith.

Close Encounters

Author : Robert Louis Jackson
Publisher : Ars Rossica
ISBN 13 : 9781618118110
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Close Encounters written by Robert Louis Jackson and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art. Through close textual analysis, the author offers a view of the unity of form and content in Russian writing and of its unique capacity to disclose the universal in the detail of human experience. With an emphasis on Dostoevsky, Close Encounters foregrounds ethical and spiritual concerns of Russian writers and stimulates the reader to pursue his or her own critical exploration of Russian literature. This work will be of interest to academic libraries, university students, and specialists in literature, criticism, philosophy, and esthetics, as well as enthusiastic general readers of Russian literature.

Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi

Author : Péter Hartl
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031512286
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi written by Péter Hartl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science, Computers, and the Information Onslaught

Author : Donald M. Kerr
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483263053
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Science, Computers, and the Information Onslaught written by Donald M. Kerr and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, Computers, and the Information Onslaught: A Collection of Essays covers the proceedings of the 1981 meeting on “Science and the Information Onslaught , held at Los Alamos, New Mexico. This book is organized into five parts encompassing 19 chapters. The first part deals with the problems of measurement and the uses of information in decisions concerning national security. This part also emphasizes the dependence of survival on technological progress. The next part examines the foundations of information theory, the interaction between psychological concepts and the mathematical theories of automata, and the major problems in robotics. These topics are followed by discussions of the efforts to codify languages in formal grammatical systems and the past misuse of irrelevantly detailed information in decision making, specifically the use and misuse of information in government decisions about technological projects. The remaining parts consider the project of enhancing human abilities by the insertion of silicon chips in the body. These parts also assess the implications of a microelectronic technology capable of producing chips bearing millions of logically active circuit elements. Accounts of cryptanalytic successes in World War II are also included. This book will be of value to mathematicians, physicists, linguistics, and computer scientists.

Science, Politics and Social Practice

Author : Robert Sonné Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792329893
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Science, Politics and Social Practice written by Robert Sonné Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of social and political practice. In Science, Politics and Social Practice, (Volume II of Essays in Honor of Robert S. Cohen), an international group of scholars -- philosophers, sociologists, historians, and political scientists -- discuss issues at the cutting edge of contemporary social and political thought, and its bearing on science. Several essays discuss the relations of Marxism to science, and specifically, to the philosophies of science of Carnap and Popper, as well as Soviet Marxism, and the effects of Stalinism on Soviet science. There are also essays on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, on questions of method and aim in historical narrative, on the issue of cultural relativism, and more.

Knowledge and Power

Author : Sanford A. Lakoff
Publisher : New York : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Power written by Sanford A. Lakoff and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

Author : Maria Rogacheva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108171338
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev written by Maria Rogacheva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.

Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars

Author : Ethan Pollock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691124674
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars written by Ethan Pollock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: 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.

Essays on the Cold War

Author : Murray Wolfson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349120057
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Cold War written by Murray Wolfson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means. The book revolves around four major themes. Firstly, it is argued that the origin of the cold war is not to be found in rational, economic motivation, but in ideology through which both the East and West perceived 'reality'. Secondly, these ideological preconceptions generated complex feed-back processes of hostility that lasted forty years. Thirdly, although this hostility was expressed in political, ideological and military terms, the decisive battle was fought in economic terms as each nation devoted resources to unproductive military purposes. Finally, the end of the cold war came with the collapse of the dysfunctional Soviet economy. Although, the Soviets lost the cold war, in the light of the ascendancy of its competitors, the United States did not win it.

Passion and Perception

Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0982806167
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Passion and Perception written by Richard Stites and published by New Academia Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of "Stitesiana" includes 29 essays on Russian culture, representing the bulk of 20 years of scholarship, in addition to well-known monographs and diverse pieces in popular magazines.

How Not to Network a Nation

Author : Benjamin Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034182
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book How Not to Network a Nation written by Benjamin Peters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.