Download Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 AudioBook Free
An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is actually the first background of how the Soviet Union's experts became both the glory and the laughingstock of the intellectual world. Simon Ings weaves along what happened whenever a couple of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and enterprisers, as well as enthusiasts and charlatans, destined themselves to a declining government to make a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great test in 'rational government'.
