The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

Klappentext Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Zusammenfassung Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka! one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev! she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War.

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Maria Rogacheva is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Her work has appeared in venues including Europe-Asia Studies.

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A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.

Contenu

1. An unusual testing ground: building a town in the marshes, 1955-1962; 2. Children of the great patriotic war: the formation of Soviet scientists, 1930-1955; 3. 'We were building a town for ourselves': everyday life in Chernogolovka in the 1960s and 1970s; 4. Scientists, ideology and the communist party in Chernogolovka; 5. Chernogolovka scientists between loyalty and dissent: the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Liubarskii affair; 6. Scientists behind the iron curtain: traveling abroad in the 1960s and 1970s; Conclusion; Biographical notes; Acknowledgments.