NOTES

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES ix
4. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Stalin, Science, and Politics after the Second World War 1
5. CHAPTER 2 “A MARXIST SHOULD NOT WRITE LIKE THAT” The Crisis on the “Philosophical Front” 15
6. CHAPTER 3 “THE FUTURE BELONGS TO MICHURIN” The Agricultural Academy Session of 1948 41
7. CHAPTER 4 “WE CAN ALWAYS SHOOT THEM LATER” Physics, Politics, and the Atomic Bomb 72
8. CHAPTER 5 “A BATTLE OF OPINIONS” Stalin Intervenes in Linguistics 104
9. CHAPTER 6 “ATTACK THE DETRACTORS WITH CERTAINTY OF TOTAL SUCCESS” The Pavlov Session of 1950 136
10. CHAPTER 7 “EVERYONE IS WAITING” Stalin and the Economic Problems of Communism 168
11. CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION Science and the Fate of the Soviet System 212
12. NOTES 223
13. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 253
14. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 259
15. INDEX 263