Nikolai Krementsov
Biographic Data
| ID | 695843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolai Krementsov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolai |
| FAMILY NAME | Krementsov |
| SIGNATURE | KREMENTSOV N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8839-5948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thought Transfer and Mind Control between Science and Fiction: Fedor Il’in’s The Valley of New Life (1928)
This essay makes a detailed analysis of the contents and contexts of a science fiction novel published in Moscow in 1928, and written by gynecologist Fedor Il’in (1873–1959) under the title The Valley of New Life. The analysis illuminates the process of the transformation of the specialized, and often quite arcane, scientific knowledge generated by biomedical research into an influential cultural resource that embodied acute societal anxieties (b…
The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond
The Promises, Realities, and Legacies of the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–2017
Off with your heads: Isolated organs in early Soviet science and fiction
Trypanosoma cruzi, cancer and the Cold War
In the summer of 1946, the international community of cancer researchers was inspired by the announcement that two Soviet scientists, Nina Kliueva and Grigorii Roskin, had discovered anticancer properties in culture extracts made from the South American protozoan, Trypanosoma cruzi, and had produced a preparation - named after its discoverers KR - which showed clear therapeutic effects on cancer patients. Research teams from various countries ent…
Hormones and the Bolsheviks: From Organotherapy to Experimental Endocrinology, 1918-1929
The discipline of endocrinology emerged over roughly the same period in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, and elsewhere, and its practitioners across the world shared research practices and agendas to a considerable degree. Yet the discipline's institutions, networks, and social practices were firmly embedded in the particular social fabric of concrete locales, and they were built on specific local traditions, resources, and pa…
In the Shadow of the Bomb: U.S.-Soviet Biomedical Relations in the Early Cold War, 1944–1948
The deterioration of U.S.-Soviet scientific relations in 1946–1948 traditionally has been seen as simply a consequence of the growing political conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Scientific activities with direct military applications—most clearly manifested in the nuclear bomb—have been depicted as the primary motive for a variety of Cold War science policies, ranging from restrictions on international cooperation to the ve…
Big Revolution, Little Revolution: Science and Politics in Bolshevik Russia
Nikolai Krementsov Big Revolution, Little Revolution: Science and Politics in Bolshevik Russia IN A ROMANTIC WORLDVIEW, SCIENCE IS THE UNENCUMBERED PURSUIT o f knowledge. It is conducted by lone white-robed geniuses inhabiting ivory towers that rise high above the ground, which is crowded by the "uninitiated," who are em broiled in their petty politics, ideologies, and hardships and whose everyday problems science generously promises to solve. Fr…
National States and International Science: A Comparative History of International Science Congresses in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Cold War United States
Prior studies of modern scientific internationalism have been written primarily from the point of view of scientists, with little regard to the influence of the state. This study examines the state's role in international scientific relations. States sometimes encouraged scientific internationalism; in the mid-twentieth century, they often sought to restrict it. The present study examines state involvement in international scientific congresses, …
Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia (review)
Reviewed by: Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia Nikolai Krementsov Paula A. Michaels . Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. xvii + 239 pp. Ill. $34.95 (0-8229-4197-X). Given a nearly total absence of historical studies of Soviet medicine during the Stalin years, this book could have been a welcom…
Giving and Taking across Borders: The Rockefeller Foundation and Russia, 1919–1928
Stalinist Science
Stalinist Science
Some scholars have viewed the Soviet state and science as two monolithic entities--with bureaucrats as oppressors, and scientists as defenders of intellectual autonomy. Based on previously unknown documents from the archives of state and Communist Party agencies and of numerous scientific institutions, Stalinist Science shows that this picture is oversimplified. Even the reinstated Science Department within the Central Committee was staffed by a …
Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science . Valery N. Soyfer , Leo Gruliow , Rebecca Gruliow
On Metaphors, Animals, and Us
Metaphorical concepts have always played an important role in scientific thought. Through these metaphors, social and cultural conditions, ideological preconceptions, and everyday experiences influence ideas about nature. This article discusses two examples from the history of ideas about evolution and animal behavior: Darwin's “struggle for existence,” and the rise and fall of zoopsychology. It also describes sociobiology as a current example
Giving and Taking across Borders: The Rockefeller Foundation and Russia, 1919–1928
Hormones and the Bolsheviks: From Organotherapy to Experimental Endocrinology, 1918-1929
The discipline of endocrinology emerged over roughly the same period in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, and elsewhere, and its practitioners across the world shared research practices and agendas to a considerable degree. Yet the discipline's institutions, networks, and social practices were firmly embedded in the particular social fabric of concrete locales, and they were built on specific local traditions, resources, and pa…
Off with your heads: Isolated organs in early Soviet science and fiction
Trypanosoma cruzi, cancer and the Cold War
In the summer of 1946, the international community of cancer researchers was inspired by the announcement that two Soviet scientists, Nina Kliueva and Grigorii Roskin, had discovered anticancer properties in culture extracts made from the South American protozoan, Trypanosoma cruzi, and had produced a preparation - named after its discoverers KR - which showed clear therapeutic effects on cancer patients. Research teams from various countries ent…
In the Shadow of the Bomb: U.S.-Soviet Biomedical Relations in the Early Cold War, 1944–1948
The deterioration of U.S.-Soviet scientific relations in 1946–1948 traditionally has been seen as simply a consequence of the growing political conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Scientific activities with direct military applications—most clearly manifested in the nuclear bomb—have been depicted as the primary motive for a variety of Cold War science policies, ranging from restrictions on international cooperation to the ve…
On Metaphors, Animals, and Us
Metaphorical concepts have always played an important role in scientific thought. Through these metaphors, social and cultural conditions, ideological preconceptions, and everyday experiences influence ideas about nature. This article discusses two examples from the history of ideas about evolution and animal behavior: Darwin's “struggle for existence,” and the rise and fall of zoopsychology. It also describes sociobiology as a current example
Big Revolution, Little Revolution: Science and Politics in Bolshevik Russia
Nikolai Krementsov Big Revolution, Little Revolution: Science and Politics in Bolshevik Russia IN A ROMANTIC WORLDVIEW, SCIENCE IS THE UNENCUMBERED PURSUIT o f knowledge. It is conducted by lone white-robed geniuses inhabiting ivory towers that rise high above the ground, which is crowded by the "uninitiated," who are em broiled in their petty politics, ideologies, and hardships and whose everyday problems science generously promises to solve. Fr…
National States and International Science: A Comparative History of International Science Congresses in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Cold War United States
Prior studies of modern scientific internationalism have been written primarily from the point of view of scientists, with little regard to the influence of the state. This study examines the state's role in international scientific relations. States sometimes encouraged scientific internationalism; in the mid-twentieth century, they often sought to restrict it. The present study examines state involvement in international scientific congresses, …
On Metaphors, Animals, and Us
Metaphorical concepts have always played an important role in scientific thought. Through these metaphors, social and cultural conditions, ideological preconceptions, and everyday experiences influence ideas about nature. This article discusses two examples from the history of ideas about evolution and animal behavior: Darwin's “struggle for existence,” and the rise and fall of zoopsychology. It also describes sociobiology as a current example
Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science . Valery N. Soyfer , Leo Gruliow , Rebecca Gruliow
Stalinist Science
Some scholars have viewed the Soviet state and science as two monolithic entities--with bureaucrats as oppressors, and scientists as defenders of intellectual autonomy. Based on previously unknown documents from the archives of state and Communist Party agencies and of numerous scientific institutions, Stalinist Science shows that this picture is oversimplified. Even the reinstated Science Department within the Central Committee was staffed by a …
Giving and Taking across Borders: The Rockefeller Foundation and Russia, 1919–1928
Stalinist Science
Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia (review)
Reviewed by: Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia Nikolai Krementsov Paula A. Michaels . Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. xvii + 239 pp. Ill. $34.95 (0-8229-4197-X). Given a nearly total absence of historical studies of Soviet medicine during the Stalin years, this book could have been a welcom…
National States and International Science: A Comparative History of International Science Congresses in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Cold War United States
Prior studies of modern scientific internationalism have been written primarily from the point of view of scientists, with little regard to the influence of the state. This study examines the state's role in international scientific relations. States sometimes encouraged scientific internationalism; in the mid-twentieth century, they often sought to restrict it. The present study examines state involvement in international scientific congresses, …
Big Revolution, Little Revolution: Science and Politics in Bolshevik Russia
Nikolai Krementsov Big Revolution, Little Revolution: Science and Politics in Bolshevik Russia IN A ROMANTIC WORLDVIEW, SCIENCE IS THE UNENCUMBERED PURSUIT o f knowledge. It is conducted by lone white-robed geniuses inhabiting ivory towers that rise high above the ground, which is crowded by the "uninitiated," who are em broiled in their petty politics, ideologies, and hardships and whose everyday problems science generously promises to solve. Fr…
In the Shadow of the Bomb: U.S.-Soviet Biomedical Relations in the Early Cold War, 1944–1948
The deterioration of U.S.-Soviet scientific relations in 1946–1948 traditionally has been seen as simply a consequence of the growing political conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Scientific activities with direct military applications—most clearly manifested in the nuclear bomb—have been depicted as the primary motive for a variety of Cold War science policies, ranging from restrictions on international cooperation to the ve…
Hormones and the Bolsheviks: From Organotherapy to Experimental Endocrinology, 1918-1929
The discipline of endocrinology emerged over roughly the same period in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, and elsewhere, and its practitioners across the world shared research practices and agendas to a considerable degree. Yet the discipline's institutions, networks, and social practices were firmly embedded in the particular social fabric of concrete locales, and they were built on specific local traditions, resources, and pa…
Off with your heads: Isolated organs in early Soviet science and fiction
Trypanosoma cruzi, cancer and the Cold War
In the summer of 1946, the international community of cancer researchers was inspired by the announcement that two Soviet scientists, Nina Kliueva and Grigorii Roskin, had discovered anticancer properties in culture extracts made from the South American protozoan, Trypanosoma cruzi, and had produced a preparation - named after its discoverers KR - which showed clear therapeutic effects on cancer patients. Research teams from various countries ent…
The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond
The Promises, Realities, and Legacies of the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–2017
Thought Transfer and Mind Control between Science and Fiction: Fedor Il’in’s The Valley of New Life (1928)
This essay makes a detailed analysis of the contents and contexts of a science fiction novel published in Moscow in 1928, and written by gynecologist Fedor Il’in (1873–1959) under the title The Valley of New Life. The analysis illuminates the process of the transformation of the specialized, and often quite arcane, scientific knowledge generated by biomedical research into an influential cultural resource that embodied acute societal anxieties (b…
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