STALIN AND THE SCIENTISTS / A HISTORY OF TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY 1905

War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science . It succeeded through terror, folly and crime - but also through courage, imagination and even genius. Stalin believed that science should serve the state and with many disciplines having virtually unlimited funds, by the time of his death in 1953, the Soviet Uni on boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history - at once the glory and the laughing stock of the intelle ctual wo...[Llegir més]