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Edited by Michael Gordin, Karl Hall, and Alexei Kojevnikov

Osiris, Volume 23

Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960

316 pages,  6-3/4 x 10  © 2008
Series: Osiris

Paper $33.00

ISBN: 9780226304571   Published September 2008

Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860–1960

Introduction: Intelligentsia Science Inside and Outside Russia
Michael D. Gordin and Karl Hall

Intelligentsia as Social Organization

The Heidelberg Circle: German Inflections on the Professionalization of Russian Chemistry in the 1860s
Michael D. Gordin

Turning Pedagogy into a Science: Teachers and Psychologists in Late Imperial Russia (1897–1917)
Andy Byford

Organizational Culture and Professional Identities in the Soviet Nuclear Power Industry
Sonja D. Schmid

Intelligentsia as Political Agent

The Phenomenon of Soviet Science
Alexei Kojevnikov

The Conquest of Science: Women and Science in Russia, 1860–1940
Olga Valkova

Wishful Science: The Persistence of T. D. Lysenko’s Agrobiology in the Politics of Science
Nils Roll- Hansen

Stalin’s Rocket Designers’ Leap into Space: The Technical Intelligentsia Faces the Thaw
Slava Gerovitch

Intelligentsia as Utopia

Taming the Primitive: Elie Metchnikov and His Discovery of Immune Cells
Kirill Rossiianov

The Schooling of Lev Landau: The European Context of Postrevolutionary Soviet Theoretical Physics
Karl Hall

Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia
Asif A. Siddiqi

Notes on Contributors

Index

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