Empire of Knowledge The Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1917 1970 1st Edition by Alexander Vucinich ISBN 0520347269 9780520347267

I. Ancestry (1725-1917)

• The Legacy of Peter I
• The Age of Lomonosov
• The Academy and the Enlightenment
• Reforms and Retreats Under Alexander I
• The Era of “Official Nationality”
• The Academy in the Era of Reforms
• The Age of Political Crisis

II. The Search for New Identity (1918-1928)

• Scientific Institutions: Major Systems
• The Time of Uncertainty
• KEPS: A Bridge Between the Academy and the Government
• Institutional Independence
• Mechanisms of Government Control
• General Orientation

III. The Forging of a Soviet Institution (1929-1940)

• The Sovietization of the Academy
• Dialectical Materialism and the Unity of Science
• Historical Materialism: Theory of History and the Social Sciences
• Pressures, Purges, and Adaptations
• Institutional Consolidation and Dilemmas of Growth

IV. The Triumph of Ideology (1941-1953)

• World War II Adaptations
• The Search for Academic Autonomy
• The War on Ideological Impurities and Cosmopolitanism
• Academic Resistance

V. The Thaw and the Scientific and Technological Revolution (1954-1970)

• The Thaw
• The Scientific and Technological Revolution
• Institutional Growth
• The Reconstitution of Authority

VI. Science and Changing Values

• The Science of Science: A Defense of Broader Autonomy for Scholarship
• Science and Philosophy
• Science and Ethics
• Science and Art

Conclusion