Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia: Volume 7

by Paul R. Josephson

Book Overview

Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics--or, more aptly, science under stress--in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses the impact of scientific, cultural, and political revolution on physicists' research and professional aspirations.

Political and social revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520074823
• ISBN13: 9780520074828
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"