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An epic history of science in the Soviet Union, following a researchers who survived Stalin's rule and helped to reshape the entire world. Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on environment change, have often was required to contend with politics in their quest for knowledge. However in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like nothing you've seen prior, scientists resided their lives on a blade border. The Soviet Union acquired the best-funded methodical establishment ever sold. Scientists were increased as popular heroes and lavished with prizes and privileges. But if their ideas or their field of study lost favour with the elites, they could be exiled, imprisoned, or murdered. Yet they persisted, making major contributions to 20th century science. Stalin and the Scientists tells the storyplot of the many gifted researchers who did the trick in Russia from the years leading up to the Trend through the death of the "Great Scientist" himself, Joseph Stalin. It weaves collectively the reports of researchers, politicians, and ideologues into an intimate and sometimes horrifying family portrait of a state motivated to remake the entire world. They often times wreaked great harm. Stalin was himself an amateur botanist, and by dropping under the sway of dangerous charlatans like Trofim Lysenko (who refused the living of genes), and by counting on antiquated ideas of biology, he not only damaged the lives of a huge selection of brilliant researchers, he triggered the death of thousands and thousands through famine. But from atomic physics to management theory, and from rays biology to neuroscience and psychology, these Soviet experts also made breakthroughs that forever altered agriculture, education, and drugs. A masterful publication that deepens our understanding of Russian history, Stalin and the Scientists is a great achievements of research and storytelling, and a gripping check out what happens when science falls prey to politics.

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