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Interactions and Confrontations between Physicists in the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in the Universities, 1940--1960, and the 1953 “Student Revolt” in the Physics Department (2011)

Kessenikh, A. V. (Author)

VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Volume: 11, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 83-92

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Russian.
Language: Russian

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Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Societies; institutions; academies Universities and colleges Physics Interinstitutional relations 20th century Russia Akademiia Nauk SSSR

In October 1953, students and young scholars of the physics faculty at Moscow State University selected their representatives to the department's Komsomol Conference. Acting within the framework of the officially justified but in practice rather risky discourse, the Komsomol members raised their voices with impunity against the pedagogical politics of the department's administration, complaining, above all, about the removal of the country's leading physicists from teaching. The present essay examines the events surrounding the conference and observes that the post-Stalin and post-Beria atmosphere of liberalization, enthusiasm, and patriotism of the young physicists contributed to the successful resolution of their public protest.

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