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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science

  1. General
  2. Mathematics
  3. Astronomy
  4. Physics
  5. The Atomic project
  6. Chemistry
  7. Earth sciences
  8. Biology
  9. Physiology and medicine
  10. Environmental studies
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: General

Sources in English:

  1. Graham, Loren R., ed. Science and the Soviet Social Order (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990).
  2. Graham, Loren R. Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  3. Graham, Loren R. Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).
  4. Graham, Loren R. The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967).
  5. Joravsky, David. Soviet Marxism and Natural Science, 1917-1932 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
  6. Krementsov, Nikolai. Stalinist Science (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997). Annotation
  7. Kruse-Vaucienne, Ursula M., and John M. Logsdon. Science and Technology in the Soviet Union: A Profile (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1979).
  8. Kruze-Vaucienne, Ursula M., and John R. Thomas, eds. Soviet Science and Technology: Domestic and Foreign Perspectives (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1977).
  9. Levin, Aleksey E. "Expedient Catastrophe: A Reconsideration of the 1929 Crisis at the Soviet Academy of Science," Slavic Review 47 (1988): 261-79.
  10. Medvedev, Zhores. Soviet Science (New York: Norton, 1978).
  11. Vucinich, Alexander. Empire of Knowledge: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917-1970) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aleksandrov, D.A., and N.A. Krementsov. "Opyt putevoditelia po neizvedannoi zemle: Predvaritel'nyi ocherk sotsial'noi istorii sovetskoi nauki (1917-1950-e gody)," VIET, no. 4 (1989): 67-80.
  2. Fersman, A.E., ed. Akademiia Nauk SSSR za desiat' let, 1917-1927 (Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1927).
  3. Ioffe, A.F., et al., eds. Nauka i tekhnika SSSR, 1917-1927 (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1926).
  4. Kniazev, G.A.. Kratkii ocherk istorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 3rd ed. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).
  5. Komkov, G.D., et al. Akademiia Nauk SSSR: Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk, 2 vols. (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).
  6. Levshin, B.V. Sovetskaia nauka v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  7. Matematika i estestvoznanie v SSSR: Ocherki razvitiia matematicheskikh i estestvennykh nauk za dvadtsat' let (Moscow/Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1938).
  8. Nauka i tekhnika SSSR, 1917-1987: Khronika (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  9. Perchenok, F.F. "Akademiia nauk na velikom perelome," in G.V. Belkova et al., eds., Zven'ia: Istoricheskii al'manakh, vol. 1. (Moscow: Progress, 1991), pp. 163-235.
  10. Petrov, F.N. Desiat' let sovetskoi nauki (Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927).
  11. Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk: 275 let sluzheniia Rossii (Moscow: Ianus-K, 1999).
  12. Vavilov, S.I. Tridtsat' let sovetskoi nauki (Moscow: Pravda, 1947).
  13. Vavilov, S.I., ed. Voprosy istorii otechestvennoi nauki (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1949).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Mathematics

Sources in English:

  1. Corrada, Manuel. "On Some Vistas Disclosed by Mathematics to the Russian Avante-Garde: Geometry, El Lissitzky and Gabo," Leonardo 25: 3-4 (1992): 377-84.
  2. Ford, Charles E. "Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and Religion in Moscow," The Mathematical Intelligencer 13 (1991): 24-30.
  3. Levin, Alexey E. "Anatomy of a Public Campaign: 'Academician Luzin's Case' in Soviet Political History," Slavic Review 49 (1990): 211-52.
  4. Phillips, Esther R. "Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin and the Moscow School of the Theory of Functions," Historia Mathematica 5 (1978): 275-305.
  5. Sheynin, Oscar. "Chuprov, Slutsky, and Chetverikov: Some Comments," Historia Mathematica 20:3 (1993): 243-54.
  6. Shields, Allen. "Years Ago: Luzin and Egorov," The Mathematical Intelligencer 9 (1987): 24-27; 11 (1989): 5-8.
  7. Vucinich, Alexander. "Mathematics and Dialectics in the Soviet Union: The Pre-Stalin Period." Historia Matematica 26 (1999): 107-24.
  8. Zdravkovska, Smilka, and Peter L. Duren, eds. Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics (Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1993).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aleksandrov, P.S. Matematika v SSSR za 15 let (Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1932).
  2. Aleksandrov, P.S., et al., eds. Matematika v SSSR za 30 let, 1917-1947 (Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1948).
  3. Bazhanov, V.A. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Vasil'ev, 1880-1940 (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  4. Bogoliubov, A.N., and N.M. Rozhenko. "Opyt 'vnedreniia' dialektiki v matematiku v kontse 20-kh-nachale 30-kh godov," Voprosy filosofii, no. 9 (1991): 32-43.
  5. Borodin, A.I., and A.S. Bugai. Vydaiushchiesia matematiki: Biograficheskii slovar'-spravochnik, 2nd ed. (Kiev: Radians'ka shkola, 1987).
  6. Ermolaeva, N.S. "Pervye gody russkoi matematicheskoi emigratsii," VIET, no. 2 (1992): 50-61.
  7. Florenskij, P.A. Mnimosti v geometrii (in German). Nachdruck nebst einer einfuhrenden Studie von Michael Hagemeister (Munchen: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1985).
  8. Ignatsius, G.I. Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  9. Istoriko-matematicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Gostekhiz/Nauka, 1948--).
  10. Iushkevich, A.P. "Delo akademika N.N. Luzina," Vestnik AN SSSR, no. 4 (1989): 102-13.
  11. Khanovich, I.G. Akademik Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1967).
  12. Kurosh, A.G., ed. Matematika v SSSR za sorok let, 2 vols. (Moscow/Leningrad: Fizmatgiz, 1959).
  13. Ocherki po istorii matematiki i fiziki na Ukraine (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1978).
  14. Ocherki razvitiia matematiki v SSSR: Teoreticheskaia matematika, prikladnye voprosy matematiki (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1983).
  15. Putiata, T.V., et al. Aleksandr Petrovich Kotel'nikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).
  16. Shiriaev, Al'bert N., ed. Kolmogorov v vospominaniiakh (Moscow: Nauka, 1993).
  17. Shtokalo, I.Z., ed. Istoriia otechestvennoi matematiki, vols. 3 and 4: 1917-1967 (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1968-1970).
  18. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie matematiki v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Astronomy

(see also The Space Program)

Sources in English:

  1. Doel, Ronald. E., and Robert A. McCutcheon, eds. "Astronomy and the State: CIS Perspectives," a special issue of Journal for the History of Astronomy, no. 4 (1995).
  2. McCutcheon, Robert A. "The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers," Slavic Review 50 (Spring 1991): 100-17.
  3. McCutcheon, Robert A. "The purge of Soviet astronomy: 1936-37, with a Discussion of Its Background and Aftermath." M.A. Thesis, Georgetown University, 1985.
  4. Struve, Otto. "The Pulkovo Observatory, 1839-1941," Sky and Telescope 1(4) (1941): 3-14, 19.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Blazhko, S.N. "Istoriia Moskovskoi astronomicheskoi observatorii v sviazi s istoriei prepodavaniia astronomii v universitete, 1824-1920." Uchenye zapiski Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 58 (1940): 5-106.
  2. Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Fizmatizdat/Nauka, 1955--).
  3. Kulikovskii, P.G. Pavel Karlovich Shternberg (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  4. Lutskii, V.K. Istoriia astronomicheskikh obshchestvennykh organizatsii v SSSR, 1888-1941 (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).
  5. Numerova, A.B. Boris Vasil'evich Numerov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).
  6. Slastenov, A.I. Astronomiia v Khar'kovskom universitete za 150 let, 1805-1955 (Khar'kov: Izd-vo Khar'kovskogo universiteta, 1955).
  7. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie astronomii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  8. Sto piat'desiat let Pulkovskoi observatorii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1989).
  9. Suslov, A.K. Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1980).
  10. Vorontsov-Vel'iaminov, B.A. Ocherki istorii astronomii v SSSR (Moscow: Fizmatgiz, 1960).
  11. Uspenskaia, N.V. "Vreditel'stvo ...v dele izucheniia solnechnogo zatmeniia," Priroda, no. 8 (1989): 86-101.
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Physics

Sources in English:

  1. Badash, Lawrence. Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985).
  2. Boag, J.W., et al., eds. Kapitza in Cambridge and (Moscow: Life and Letters of a Russian Physicist (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1990).
  3. Breizman, Boris N., ed. G.I. Budker: Reflections and Remembrances (New York: American Institute of Physics Press, 1994).
  4. Gorelik, Gennady E. "Vladimir Fock: Philosophy of Gravity and Gravity of Philosophy," in J. Earman, M. Janssen, and J.D. Norton, eds., The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity (Einstein Studies, vol. 5) (Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1993), pp. 308-31.
  5. Gorelik, Gennady E., and Victor Ya. Frenkel. Matvei Petrovich Bernshtein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties, trans. by Valentina M. Levina (Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser, 1980).
  6. Irvine, John, and Ben R. Martin. "Basic Research in the East and West: A Comparison of the Scientific Performance of High-Energy Physics Accelerators," Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 293-341.
  7. Josephson, Paul. Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991).
  8. Josephson, Paul. "Physics and Soviet-Western Relations in the 1920s and 1930s," Physics Today 41 (1988): 54-61.
  9. Kojevnikov, Alexei. "Piotr Kapitza and Stalin's Government: A Study in Moral Choice," Historical Studies in Physical and Biological Sciences 22 (1991): 131-64.
  10. Kojevnikov, Alexei. "President of Stalin's Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov," Isis 87:1 (March 1996): 18-50.
  11. Kojevnikov, Alexei. "Freedom, Collectivism, and Quasiparticles: Social Metaphors in Quantum Physics," Historical Studies in Physical and Biological Sciences 29:2 (1999): 295-331.
  12. Sagdeev, Roald Z. The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space from Stalin to Star Wars (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994).
  13. Tropp, E.A. et al. Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  14. Turkevich, A.M., and V.Ia. Frenkel', eds. A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical institute (Leningrad: Nauka, 1978).
  15. Vizgin, V.P., and G.E. Gorelik. "The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR," in Thomas Glick, ed., The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987), pp. 265-326.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Artsimovich, L.A., et al., eds. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie fiziki v SSSR, 2 vols. (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  2. Bessarab, Maiia. Landau: Stranitsy zhizni (Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1978).
  3. Bogush, A.A. Ocherki po istorii fiziki mikromira (Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika, 1990).
  4. Boiko, E.S. Shkola akademika A.A. Andronova (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  5. Borovik-Romanov, A.S., ed. Aleksandr Iosifovich Shal'nikov: Ocherki, vospominaniia, materialy (St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1992).
  6. Feinberg, E.L., ed. Vospominaniia o I.E. Tamme, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  7. Frank, I.M., ed. Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov: Ocherki i vospominaniia (Moscow: Nauka, 1979).
  8. Frenkel', V.Ia. Iakov Il'ich Frenkel' (Moscow/Leningrad: Nauka, 1966).
  9. Frenkel', V.Ia., ed. Ia.I. Frenkel': Vospominaniia, pis'ma, dokumenty (Leningrad: Nauka, 1986).
  10. Gorelik, G.E. "Dva portreta," Neva, no. 8 (1989): 167-73.
  11. Gorelik, G.E. "Fizika unversitetskaia i akademicheskaia," VIET, no. 2 (1991): 31-46.
  12. Gorelik, G.E. "Moskva, fizika, 1937 god," VIET, no. 1 (1992): 15-32.
  13. Gorelik, G.E., and A.B. Kozhevnikov. "Chto spaslo sovetskuiu fiziku ot lysenkovaniia? (Dialog)" Priroda, no. 5 (1999): 95-104.
  14. Issledovaniia po istorii fiziki i mekhaniki (Moscow: Nauka, 1985--).
  15. Kemoklidze, M.P. Kvantovyi vozrast (Moscow, 1989).
  16. Khalatnikov, I.M. Vospominaniia o L.D. Landau (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  17. Khramov, Iu.A. Fiziki: Biograficheskii spravochnik (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  18. Khramov, Iu.A. Istoriia formirovaniia i razvitiia fizicheskikh shkol na Ukraine (Kiev: Feniks, 1991).
  19. Krivonosov, Iu.N. "Landau i Sakharov v razrabotkakh KGB," VIET 3 (1993): 123-32.
  20. Levshin, L.V. Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).
  21. Novikov, V.D., ed. Vospominaniia ob akademike L.A. Artsimoviche (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  22. Ocherki po istorii matematicheskoi fiziki (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1985).
  23. Ocherki po istorii matematiki i fiziki na Ukraine (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1978).
  24. Ocherki po istorii razvitiia iadernoi fiziki v SSSR (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1982).
  25. Okun', L.B., ed. Vospominaniia o I.Ia. Pomeranchuke (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  26. Pamiati A.A. Andronova (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1955).
  27. Papaleksi, N.D. "Kratkii ocherk zhizni i nauchnoi deiatel'nosti L.I. Mandel'shtama," Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk 27 (1945): 143-58.
  28. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie mekhaniki (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  29. Shpolskii, E.V. Ocherki po istorii razvitiia sovetskoi fiziki, 1917-1967 (Moscow: Nauka, 1969).
  30. Sominskii, M.S. Abram Feodorovich Ioffe (Moscow: Nauka, 1964).
  31. Sumbaev, O.I. Akademik B.P. Konstantinov: Vospominaniia, stat'i, dokumenty (Leningrad: Nauka, 1985).
  32. Turkevich, A.M., and V.Ia. Frenkel'. Vklad akademika Ioffe v stanovlenie iadernoi fiziki v SSSR (Leningrad: Nauka, 1980).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet science: The Atomic Project

Sources in English:

  1. Babyonyshev, Alexander, ed. On Sakharov (New York: Knopf, 1982).
  2. Balogh, Brian. Chain Reaction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
  3. Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb's Early Light (New York: Pantheon, 1985).
  4. Breizman, Boris N., and James W. van Dam, eds. G.I. Budker: Reflections and Remembrances (New York: American Institute of Physics Press, 1994).
  5. Golovin, I. I.V. Kurchatov: A Socialist-Realist Biography of the Soviet Nuclear Scientist (Bloomington: Selbstverlag Press, 1968).
  6. Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1994).
  7. Keldysh, L.V., et al., eds. Andrei Sakharov: Facets of Life (Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France: Editions Frontiers, 1991).
  8. Riehl, Nikolaus. Stalin's Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb, ed. and trans. Frederick Seitz (Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1996).
  9. Sakharov, Andrei. Memoirs (New York: MacMillan, 1988).
  10. Tsukerman, Veniamin, and Zinaida Azarkh. Arzamas-16. Soviet Scientists in the Nuclear Age: A Memoir, trans. by Timothy Sergay, intr. and ed. by Michael Pursglove (Nottingham: Bramcote Press).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aleksandrov, A.P., ed. Vospominaniia ob Igore Vasil'eviche Kurchatove (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  2. Averin, E.S., ed. Andrei Dmitrievich: Vospominaniia o Sakharove (Moscow: Terra, 1990).
  3. Feinberg, E.L., et al., eds. A.D. Sakharov: Etiudy k nauchnomu portretu: Glazami kolleg i druzei (Moscow: Fizicheskoe obshchestvo SSSR "Mir," 1991).
  4. Gasparian, B.G., and V.Ia. Frenkel', eds. Akademik A.I. Alikhanov: Vospominaniia, pis'ma, dokumenty (Leningrad: Nauka, 1989).
  5. Georgii Nikolaevich Flerov: K semidesiatiletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia (Dubna: Ob'edinennyi institut iadernykh issledovanii, 1983).
  6. Gorelik, G.E. "S chego nachinalas' sovetskaia vodorodnaia bomba?" VIET 1 (1993): 85-95.
  7. Grinberg, A.P. Igor' Vasil'evich Kurchatov v Fiziko-tekhnicheskom institute, 1925-1943 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).
  8. Gubarev, Vladimir S. Arzamas-16 (Moscow: IzdAT, 1992).
  9. Kogan, V.S. Kirill Dmitrievich Sinel'nikov (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1984).
  10. Kuznetsova, R.V. "Dokumenty o zhizni i deiatel'nosti akademika I.V. Kurchatova, 1895-1989 (Istoriia, problemy komplektovaniia, sistematizatsii i ispol'zovaniia fonda lichnogo proiskhozhdeniia)." Candidate degree dissertation, MGIAI, 1990.
  11. Negin E.A. et al. Sovetskii atomnyi proekt. Konets atomnoi monopolii: kak eto bylo (Nizhnii Novgorod: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1995).
  12. Tsukerman, Veniamin A., and Zinaida M. Azarkh. Liudi i vzryvy (Arzamas: VNIIEF, 1994).
  13. "U istokov sovetskogo atomnogo proekta: rol' razvedki, 1941-1946 gg.," VIET, no. 3 (1992): 103-34.
  14. Vizgin, Vl.P., ed. and comp. Istoriia sovetskogo atomnogo proekta: dokumenty, vospominaniia, issledovaniia (Moscow: Ianus-K, 1998).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Chemistry

Sources in English:

  1. Ipatieff, V.N. Life of a Chemist (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1946).
  2. Rabkin, Yakov. "Trends and Forces in the Soviet History of Chemistry," Isis 67 (1976): 257-73.
  3. Turkevich, John. Chemistry in the Soviet Union (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Gerasimov, Ia.I., ed. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie fizicheskoi khimii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  2. Grechkin, N.P., and V.I. Kuznetsov. Aleksandr Erminingel'dovich Arbuzov (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).
  3. Korshak, V.V., ed. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie organicheskoi khimii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  4. Kovner, M.A. "Razvitie kvantovoi khimii v SSSR (1930-1980)," VIET, no. 1 (1990): 28-37.
  5. Kozlov, V.V. Ocherki istorii khimicheskikh obshchestv SSSR (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1958).
  6. Kretovich, V.L. Ocherki po istorii biokhimii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
  7. Kuznetsov, V.I., and A.M. Maksimenko. Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipat'ev (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).
  8. Laman, N.K. Vera Il'inichna Glebova (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  9. Shchelokov, R.N., ed. Vydaiushchiesia sovetskie khimiki akademiki A.A. Grinberg i I.I. Cherniaev (Moscow: Nauka, 1970).
  10. Solov'ev, Iu.I. Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  11. Varshavskii, Iu.S., and M.I. Gel'fman. Aleksandr Abramovich Grinberg (Leningrad: Nauka, 1974).
  12. Volkov, V.A. Vydaiushchiesia khimiki mira: Biograficheskii spravochnik (Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1991).
  13. Zhavoronkov, N.M., ed. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie obshchei, neorganicheskoi i analiticheskoi khimii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Earth Sciences

Sources in English:

  1. Bailes, Kendall E. Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolution: Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
  2. Bailes, Kendall E. "Soviet Science in the Stalin Period: The Case of V.I. Vernadskii and His Scientific School, 1928-1945," Slavic Review 45 (Spring 1986): 20-37.
  3. Borisov, Vadim M., Felix F. Perchenok, and Arsenii B. Roginsky. "Community as the Source of Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere," Configurations 1 (1993): 415-38.
  4. A Short History of Geographical Science in the Soviet Union (Moscow: Progress, 1976).
  5. Wood, Robert M. "Geology vs. Dogma: The Russian Rift," The New Scientist (12 June 1980): 234-37.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Esakov, V.A. Anuchin i sozdanie russkoi universitetskoi geograficheskoi shkoly (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1955).
  2. Shcherbakov, D.I., ed. Aleksandr Evgenevich Fersman: Zhizn' i deiatel'nost' (Moscow: Nauka, 1965).
  3. Grigor'ev, A.A., and I.M. Zabelin, eds. Voprosy istorii fizicheskoi geografii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1970).
  4. Ianshin, A.L., ed. Nauchnoe i sotsial'noe znachenie deiatel'nosti V.I. Vernadskogo (Leningrad; Nauka, 1989).
  5. Il'ina, T.D. Formirovanie sovetskoi shkoly razvedochnoi geofiziki: 1917-1944 (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  6. Il'ina, T.D. Razvitie iadernoi geofiziki v SSSR: 1917-1960 (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  7. Kurochkin, G.D. Issledovaniia mineral'nykh resursov ekspeditsiiami Akademii nauk SSSR: 1919-1959 (Moscow: Nauka, 1969).
  8. Mochalov, I.I. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).
  9. Murzaev, E.M. Lev Semenovich Berg (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  10. Ocherki istorii geograficheskoi nauki v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1976).
  11. Perel'man, A.I. Aleksandr Evgen'evich Fersman (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).
  12. Romanovskii, S.I. Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  13. Shatskii, N.S., and A.L. Ianshin. Portrety geologov (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  14. Sokolov, B.S., and A.L. Ianshin, eds. V.I. Vernadskii i sovremennost' (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  15. Vinogradov, A.P., ed. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie nauk o zemle v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  16. Vladimir Vernadskii: Zhizneopisanie, izbrannye trudy, vospominaniia sovremennikov, suzhdeniia potomkov (Moscow: Sovremennik, 1993).
  17. Vydaiushchiesia otechestvennye geologi: Ocherki po istorii geologicheskikh znanii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1978).
  18. Vydaiushchiesia uchenye Geologicheskogo komiteta--VSEGEI (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).
  19. Zabelin, I.M. Ocherki istorii geograficheskoi mysli v SSSR: 1917-1945 gg. (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Biology

Sources in English:

  1. Adams, Mark B. "Biology After Stalin," Survey 23 (Winter 1977-78): 53-80.
  2. Adams, Mark B., ed. The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky: Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994). Annotation
  3. Adams, Mark B. "Eugenics in Russia, 1900-1940," in Mark B. Adams, ed., The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 153-216.
  4. Adams, Mark B. "The Founding of Population Genetics: Contributions of the Chetverikov School, 1924-1934," Journal of the History of Biology 1 (1968): 23-39.
  5. Adams, Mark B. "From 'Gene Fund' to 'Gene Pool': On the Evolution of Evolutionary Language," in William Coleman and Camille Limoges, eds., Studies in the History of Biology, vol. 3 (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, ), pp. 241-85.
  6. Adams, Mark. "Science, Ideology, and Structure: The Kol'tsov Institute, 1900-1970," in Linda Lubrano and Susan Gross Solomon, eds., The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 173-204.
  7. Adams, Mark B. "Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis," in Ernst Mayr and William Provine, eds., The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp. 242-278.
  8. Adams, Mark B. "Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis," in Ernst Mayr and William Provine, eds., The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp. 193-225.
  9. Adams, Mark B. "Toward a Synthesis: Population Concepts in Russian Evolutionary Thought, 1925-1935," Journal of the History of Biology 3 (1970): 107-29.
  10. Ashby, Eric. Scientist in Russia (New York: Penguin Books, 1947).
  11. Blaher, L. The Problem of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics: A History of A Priori and Empirical Methods Used to Find A Solution (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1982).
  12. Graham, Loren R. "Reasons for Studying Soviet Science: The Example of Genetic Engineering," in Linda Lubrano and Susan Gross Solomon, eds., The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 205-40.
  13. Graham, Loren R. "Science and Values: The Eugenics Movement in Germany and Russia in the 1920s," American Historical Review 82 (1977): 1135-64.
  14. Joravsky, David. The Lysenko Affair (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970).
  15. Khakhina, L.N. Concepts of Symbiogenesis: A Historical and Critical Study of the Research of Russian Botanists (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
  16. Krementsov, Nikolai. Stalinist Science (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997). Annotation
  17. Manevich, E.D. "A.S. Serebrovskii i bor'ba za genetiku," VIET, no. 2 (1992): 78-93.
  18. Medvedev, Zhores. The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969).
  19. Popovskii, Mark A. The Vavilov Affair (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984).
  20. Roll-Hansen, Nils. The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2005).
  21. Rossianov, Kirill. "Editing Nature: Joseph Stalin and the 'New' Soviet Biology," Isis 84:4 (December 1993): 728-45.
  22. Rossianov, Kirill. "Stalin as Lysenko's Editor: Reshaping Political Discourse in Soviet Science," Configurations 1:3 (1993): 439-56. Full text
  23. Soifer, Valerii N. Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994).
  24. Weiner, Douglas. "The Roots of 'Michurinism': Transformist Biology and Acclimatization as Currents in the Russian Life Sciences," Annals of Science 42 (1985): 243-60.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aleksandrov, V.Ia. Trudnye gody sovetskoi biologii: zapiski sovremennika (St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1992).
  2. Astaurov, B.L., and P.F. Rokitskii. Nikolai Konstantinovich Kol'tsov (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).
  3. Babkov, V.V. Moskovskaia shkola evoliutsionnoi genetiki (Moscow: Nauka, 1985).
  4. Babkov, V.V. "N.K. Kol'tsov: bor'ba za avtonomiiu nauki i poiski podderzhki vlasti," VIET, no. 3 (1989): 3-20.
  5. Bakhteev, F.Kh. Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1987).
  6. Barantsev, R.G., et al. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Liubishchev (Leningrad: Nauka, 1982).
  7. Beliaev, D.K., and V.I. Ivanov, eds. Vydaiushchiesia sovetskie genetiki: Sbornik biograficheskikh ocherkov (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
  8. Bykhovskii, B.E., ed. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie biologii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  9. Dubinin, N.P. Istoriia i tragediia sovetskoi genetiki (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).
  10. Dubinin, N.P. Genetika: stranitsy istorii (Kishinev: Shtinitsa, 1988).
  11. Dubinin, N.P. Vechnoe dvizhenie, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Politizdat, 1989).
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  13. Manevich, E.D. "A.S. Serebrovskii i bor'ba za genetiku," VIET, no. 2 (1992): 78-93.
  14. Mazurmovich, B.N. Vydaiushchiesia otechestvennye zoologi (Moscow: Uchpedgiz, 1960).
  15. Medvedev, N.N. Iurii Aleksandrovich Filipchenko (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  16. Mikulinskii, S.R., et al. Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov: ocherki, vospominaniia, materialy. (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  17. Mikulinskii, S.R., and Iu.I. Polianskii, eds. Razvitie evoliutsionnoi teorii v SSSR, 1917-1970-e gody (Leningrad: Nauka, 1983).
  18. Reznik, Semen. "Pravda i lozh' o Vavilove i Lysenko," VIET, no. 2 (1992): 62-78.
  19. Rosina, N.Ia. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbir (Leningrad: Nauka, 1985).
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  21. Shnol', S.E. Geroi i zlodei russkoi nauki (Moscow: KRON-PRESS, 1997).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Physiology and Medicine

Sources in English:

  1. Babkin, B.P. Pavlov: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).
  2. Davis, Christopher. "Economic Problems of the Soviet Health Service, 1917-1930," Soviet Studies 35 (1983): 343-61.
  3. Davis, Christopher. Rising Infant Mortality in the USSR in the 1970s (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1980).
  4. Field, Marc G. Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957).
  5. Field, Marc G. Soviet Socialized Medicine: An Introduction (New York: Free Press, 1967).
  6. Hyde, Gordon. The Soviet Health Service: An Historical and Comparative Study (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1974).
  7. Joravsky, David. Russian Psychology: A Critical History (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989).
  8. Kozulin, Alex. Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984).
  9. Krementsov, Nikolai. "The 'KR Affair': Soviet Science on the Threshold of the Cold War," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 17 (1995): 419-46.
  10. Sigerist, Henry E. Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union (New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 1937).
  11. Solomon, Susan G., and John F. Hutchinson, eds. Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
  12. Todes, Daniel P. "Pavlov and the Bolsheviks," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 17 (1995): 379-418.
  13. Veer, René van der, and Jaan Valsiner. Lev Vygotsky: His Life and Work (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
  14. Veer, René van der, and Jaan Valsiner., eds. The Vygotsky Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).
  15. Wertsch, James. Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985).
  16. Williams, Christopher. "The Revolution From Above in Soviet Medicine, Leningrad, 1928-1932," Journal of Urban History 20 (1994): 512-40.
  17. Windholz, George. "Pavlov's Concept of Schizophreniaas Related to the Theory of Higher Nervous Activity," History of Psychiatry 4 (1993): 511-26.
  18. Zbarsky, Ilya. Lenin's Embalmers (Flamarion/Abbeville, 1999).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Artemov, N.M., and D.A. Sakharov. Khachatur Sedrakovich Koshtoiants (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  2. Asratian, E.A. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: Zhizn', tvorchestvo, sovremennoe sostoianie ucheniia, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  3. Bekhtereva, N.P., ed. Ocherki istorii fiziologii vysshei nervnoi deiatelnosti v SSSR (Leningrad: Nauka, 1989).
  4. Chernigovskii, V.N., ed. Ocherki istorii fiziologicheskikh nauk v SSSR: Istoki i osobennosti razvitiia (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).
  5. Demidov, V.E. "U istokov fiziologii aktivnosti. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernshtein i razvitie otechestvennykh biokiberneticheskikh issledovanii," in B.V. Biriukov, ed., Kibernetika: proshloe dlia budushchego (Moscow: Nauka, 1989), pp. 108-169.
  6. Fiziologicheskie nauchnye shkoly v SSSR: Ocherki (Leningrad: Nauka, 1988).
  7. Kvasov, D.G., and A.K. Fedorova-Grot. Fiziologicheskaia shkola I.P. Pavlova: Portrety i kharakteristiki sotrundikov i uchenikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  8. Lange, K.A. Institut fiziologii imeni I. P. Pavlova: Ocherk istorii organizatsii i razvitiia (Leningrad: Nauka, 1975).
  9. Lange, K.A. Razvitie i organizatsiia fiziologicheskoi nauki v SSSR: Ocherki (Leningrad: Nauka, 1978).
  10. Leibson, L.G. Akademik L.A. Orbeli: neopublikovannye glavy biografii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1990).
  11. Leibson, L.G. Leon Abgarovich Orbeli (Leningrad: Nauka, 1973).
  12. Leibson, L.G. Vrach Russogo severa: K istorii obshchestvennoi meditsiny v Rossii (Holyoke, MA: New England Publishing Co., 1991).
  13. Rosin, Ia.A., and V.B. Malkin. Lina Solomonovna Shtern (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  14. Umrikhin, V.V. Razvitie sovetskoi shkoly differentsial'noi psikhofiziologii (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Environmental Studies

Sources in English:

  1. Barr, Brenton, and Kathleen E. Braden. The Disappearing Russian Forest: A Dilemma in Soviet Resource Management (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1988).
  2. Feshbach, Murray, and Alfred Friendly, Jr. Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature under Siege (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
  3. Nikitina, Elena N. "Environmental Security and National Instability: The Case of the Former Soviet Union," in Science, Technology, and the Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Akron: Univ. of Akron Press, 1994), pp. 242-61.
  4. Peterson, D.J. Troubled Lands: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993).
  5. Richter, Bernd Stevens. "Nature Mastered by Man: Ideology and Water in the Soviet Union," Environment and History 3 (February 1997): 69-96.
  6. Vorontsov, Nikolai N. "Nature Protection and Government in the USSR," Journal of the History of Biology 25 (Fall 1992): 369-83.
  7. Weiner, Douglas R. "Community Ecology in Stalin's Russia: "Socialist" and "Bourgeois" Science," Isis 75 (December 1984): 684-96.
  8. Weiner, Douglas R. "Demythologizing Environmentalism," Journal of the History of Biology 25 (Fall 1992): 385-411.
  9. Weiner, Douglas R. "The Historical Origins of Soviet Environmentalism," Environmental Review 6 (1982): 42-62.
  10. Weiner, Douglas R. A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of California Press, 1999).
  11. Weiner, Douglas R. Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
  12. Weiner, Douglas R. "Prometheus Rechained: Ecology and Conservation ," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 71-93.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Novikov, G.A., et al., eds. Ocherki po istorii ekologii (Moscow: Nauka, 1970).
  2. Reimers, N.F., and F.R. Shtil'mark. Osobo okhraniaemye prirodnye territorii (Moscow: Mysl', 1978).
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