Article ID: CBB001214337

Soviet Physicists during the War: Jealousy, Discord and the Ideological Dispute (2012)

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Ichikawa, Hiroshi (Author)


Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Volume: 22, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 215-226


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Science and Soviet Political Authorities: Conflict, Cooperation, and Incongruence”
Language: English

Around the beginning of "the Cold War," a series of philosophical "discussions" began in various fields of science in the Soviet Union. An intense dispute arouse also in the field of physics. We must not, however, exaggerate the ideological aspect of this issue. Using the newly declassified documents, the author tries to shed a new light on the material and emotional factors behind the ideological guise of this dispute. During the war the majority of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences continued scientific research mainly for military purposes. Significant results were achieved in varous fields of science. At the same time, the wartime experience deepened "rift" between scientists inside and outside of the Academy. Particularly the wartime evacuation of the scientific research institutes and the institutions of higher education to the different places resulted in strenghening the tendency of the functional separation between the Academy of Sciences and universities. The initiation of this assumingly ideologically-motivated campaign in the field of physics rekindled jealousy and hatred accumulated on the side of university professors and lecturers towards some of their "colleagues" with a record of splendid academic and scientific achievements.

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Authors & Contributors
Schmid, Sonja D.
Hecht, Gabrielle
Julia Herzberg
Loeckx, Renilde
Lukács, Orsolya
Ichikawa, Hiroshi
Concepts
Cold War
Scientists
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Physics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
Saudi Arabia
Zimbabwe
Ukraine
Institutions
Universität Graz
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