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Princeton University Press, Date: 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2006. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691124671 9780691124674 [US]
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Date: 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 269. 8vo. Publisher's red boards, black lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographs, and portraits. Lightest edgewear, contents clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good and housed in very good lightly rubbed, unclipped, dustjacket. Overall, very good. Uncommon in commerce. "Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on genetics and physiology, adjudicated controversies about modern physics, and wrote essays on linguistics and political economy. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. But in Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the perfect symbiosis between power and knowledge. Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written book shows that Stalin's forays into scholarship can be understood only withi ...
ISBN10: 0691124671, ISBN13: 9780691124674, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] Hardcover viii, 269 pages : illustrations; bibliography; index.Binding fresh, corners sharp, a trace of wear to head and foot of spine; contents as new. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, with a trace of wear to head and foot of spine. 540 grams. [Albany, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0691124671, ISBN13: 9780691124674, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey] Hardcover First Edition pp. 269. 8vo. Publisher's red boards, black lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographs, and portraits. Lightest edgewear, contents clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good and housed in very good lightly rubbed, unclipped, dustjacket. Overall, very good. Uncommon in commerce. "Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on genetics and physiology, adjudicated controversies about modern physics, and wrote essays on linguistics and political economy. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. But in Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the perfect symbiosis between power and knowledge. Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written book sho ...
Princeton University Press, Date: 2006-09-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2006. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691124671 9780691124674 [US]
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