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Physics Moves to the Provinces: The Siberian Physics Community and Soviet Power, 1917–1940 (2017)

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Physics 20th century, early Russia Siberia (Russia) Siberian Physical Technical Institute

Abstract The rich tradition of Siberian science and higher education is little known outside Russian academic circles. Using institutional history, this article focuses on the founding and pre-war period of the Siberian Physical Technical Institute, the establishment of its research focus and its first difficult steps to become a leading centre of R & D in Siberia. Based on archival materials, the article describes how local and national physicists justified the institute's creation by demonstrating ties with industry and building on the presence of a cohort of locally trained physicists, whose numbers were augmented by Leningrad specialists. The strength of local cadres enabled the institute to navigate civil war and cultural revolution successfully. Physicists were able to take advantage of ongoing industrialization campaigns to gain support to create the institute, although local disputes and economic problems slowed its further development. The article describes the circulation of scientific, political and philosophical knowledge between Moscow, Leningrad and the provinces, and the impact of Bolshevik rule and Stalinism on the Siberian physics enterprise.

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Authors & Contributors
Fein, Julia
Bockstoce, John R.
Franz, Marisa Karyl
Tikhonov, Igor
Tatiana Chudakova
Wójcik, Andrzej J.
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science in Context
Russian Review
Research in the History of Technology
Publishers
Yale University Press
Hoepli
Cambridge University Press
University of Toronto
Concepts
Physics
Science and culture
Museums
Science and politics
Travel; exploration
Specimens
People
Bohdanowicz, Karol
Müller, Gerhard Friedrich
Timoshenko, Stepan Prokof'evich
Messerschmidt, Daniel
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Dorogostaisky, Vitaly Cheslavovich
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Early modern
17th century
Places
Siberia (Russia)
Russia
Soviet Union
Russian Empire
Arctic regions
Serbia
Institutions
Polish Institute of Mining Engineers
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Natural History Museum (London, England)
British Museum. Natural History
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