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Buried Glory - Portraits of Soviet Scientists (Hardcover, New)
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Buried Glory - Portraits of Soviet Scientists (Hardcover, New)
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The apex of Soviet science as seen through the lives of twelve of
the USSR's most eminent researchers Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery
is the final resting place of some of Russia's most celebrated
figures, from Khrushchev and Yeltsin to Anton Chekhov, Sergei
Eisenstein, Nikolai Gogol, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Using this famed
cemetery as symbolic starting point, Buried Glory profiles a dozen
eminent Soviet scientists-nine of whom are buried at
Novodevichy-men who illustrate both the glorious heights of Soviet
research as well as the eclipse of science since the collapse of
the USSR. Drawing on extensive archival research and his own
personal memories, renowned chemist Istvan Hargittai bring these
figures back to life, placing their remarkable scientific
achievements against the tense political backdrop of the Cold War.
Among the eminent scientists profiled here are Petr L. Kapitza, one
of the most brilliant representatives of the great generation of
Soviet physicists, a Nobel-Prize winner who risked his career-and
his life-standing up for fellow scientists against Stalin. Yulii B.
Khariton, who ran the highly secretive Soviet nuclear weapons
laboratory, Arzamas-16, despite being Jewish and despite the fact
that his father Boris had been sent to the labor camps. And Andrei
D. Sakharov, the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb " and a
brilliant fighter for human rights, for which he won the Nobel
Peace Prize. Along the way, Hargittai shines a light on the
harrowing conditions under which these brilliant researchers
excelled. Indeed, in the post-war period, Stalin's anti-Semitism
and ongoing anti-science measures devastated biology, damaged
chemistry, and nearly destroyed physics. The latter was saved only
because Stalin realized that without physics and physicists there
could be no nuclear weapons. The extraordinary scientific talent
nurtured by the Soviet regime belongs almost entirely to the past.
Buried Glory is both a fitting tribute to these great scientists
and a fascinating account of scientific work behind the Iron
Curtain.
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