Article ID: CBB366231210

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

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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
Borisov, Vasilli P.
Bruno, Andy
Digby, Susan A.
Heesen, Anke te
Hessen, Boris Mikhailovich
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Archives of Natural History
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Publishers
University of Toronto
Cambridge University Press
Brandeis University Press
Yale University Press
Concepts
Physics
Science and politics
Travel; exploration
Museums
Science and culture
Collectors and collecting
People
Digby, Bassett
Dorogostaisky, Vitaly Cheslavovich
Messerschmidt, Daniel
Sakharov, Andrei
Timoshenko, Stepan Prokof'evich
Müller, Gerhard Friedrich
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Siberia (Russia)
Russia
Soviet Union
Tibet
Baltic States
Canada
Institutions
Akademiia Nauk SSSR
British Museum. Natural History
Natural History Museum (London, England)
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Polish Institute of Mining Engineers
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