Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations IX
4. Acronyms and Abbreviations XIII
5. Plates XV
6. Acknowledgments XVII
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. The Politics of Tsarist Physics 9
9. 2. The Russian Revolution and the Search for a National Science Policy 40
10. 3. The Russian Association of Physicists and the Founding of the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute 72
11. 4. The Flowering of Soviet Physics: National Achievements and International Aspirations During the New Economic Policy 104
12. 5. Physics During the First Five-Year Plan: Industrialization and Stalinist Science Policy 140
13. 6. Cultural Revolution and the Natural Sciences 184
14. 7. Theoretical Physics: Dramatis Personae 213
15. 8. Theoretical Physics: Dialectical Materialism and Philosophical Disputes 247
16. 9. The Great Terror and the Assault on the Leningrad Physics Community 276
17. Epilogue 318
18. Appendix A: The History and Politics of Soviet Physics 331
19. Appendix B: The Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute 335
20. Appendix C: Publication 344
21. Notes 353
22. Selected Bibliography 397
23. Index 413