Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Soviet Ideology as a Problem 1
5. 2. A Crisis of Faith in Science 18
6. 3. Harmless Cranks 39
7. 4. Raising Stalin's Hand 63
8. 5. Stalinist Self-Defeat, 1936-1950 97
9. 6. Self-Conquest, 1950-1965 144
10. 7. Academic Issues: Science 187
11. 8. Academic Issues: Marxism 228
12. 9. The Criterion of Practice 271
13. 10. Ideologies and Realities 306
14. Appendix A. Repressed Specialists 317
15. Appendix B. For Kremlinologists 329
16. Bibliography 337
17. Notes 357
18. Index 441