Science after Stalin

Forging a New Image of Soviet Science

Bibliographic Data

ID5018932
AuthorsKonstantin Ivanov (0000-0002-7614-337X), К В Иванов (0000-0002-8003-271X, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume15
Issue2
Pages317-338
Publication date2002-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0269889702000467
OpenAlexW1978398085
LanguageEN
Citations received13

ArgumentPost-Stalinist reforms resulted in dramatic changes in the ways of operation of Soviet science: one can say that they altered the very understanding of what science was, or should be, in the socialist society. A new vision came about as a result of political and rhetorical efforts of scientists, who pushed forward their various, often conflicting, agendas acting in accordance with specific rules of Soviet polity. The most visible part of the reform came with the 1961 administrative reorganization of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The related series of changes, however, was much broader and comprehensive, modifying the relationships between science and ideology, politicians and academic researchers, and establishing the very division between fundamental and applied research, which had been strongly rejected during the preceding Stalinist period

Aesthetics · Art · Ideology · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Rhetorical question · Sociology · History of Science and Medicine · International Science and Diplomacy · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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