Ebook {Epub PDF} Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by Simon Ings

 · Stalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the “Great Scientist” himself, Joseph Stalin. It weaves together the stories of scientists, politicians, and ideologues into an intimate and sometimes horrifying portrait of a state determined to remake the world.4/5(1).  · A Fascinating and Informative Study of Russian Science under Stalin This is an illuminating, highly readable and informative study by Simon Ings of Russia under the dictatorship of Stalin with particular regard to Science. The author places developments under Stalin in context with Pre Revolutionary Russia (the Tsars), Russia under the leadership of Lenin (post October ) and /5. Stalin believed that science should serve the state and with many disciplines having virtually unlimited funds, by the time of his death in , the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history - at once the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world/5(63).

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Stalin believed that science should serve the state and with many disciplines having virtually unlimited funds, by the time of his death in , the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history - at once the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Stalin was himself an amateur botanist, and by falling under the sway of dangerous charlatans like Trofim Lysenko (who denied the existence of genes), and by relying on antiquated ideas of biology, he not only destroyed the lives of hundreds of brilliant scientists, he caused the death of millions through famine. In Stalin and the Scientists, Simon Ings has produced one of the finest, most gripping surveys of the history of Russian science in the twentieth century. Deeply researched and written with a sense of burning importance, Ings' book ranges widely from politics to philosophy, from economics to biography to recount the monumental successes of Russian scientists and the Soviet state's Mephistophelean embrace of the scientific community.