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Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Hardcover, New)
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Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Hardcover, New)
Series: California Studies in the History of Science, 7
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Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were
closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics -
or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World
War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the
late 1930s, Josephson discusses the impact of scientific, cultural,
and political revolution on physicists' research and professional
aspirations. Political and social revolution in Russia threatened
to confound the scientific revolution. Physicists eager to
investigate new concepts of space, energy, light, and motion were
forced to accommodate dialectical materialism and subordinate their
interests to those of the state. They ultimately faced Stalinist
purges and the shift of physics leadership to Moscow. This account
of scientists cut off from their Western colleagues reveals a
little-known part of the history of modern physics.
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