Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics—or, more aptly, science und

"Will certainly become one of the standard works on the history of modern scientific institutions."--Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics

Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics—or, more aptly, science und

A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.

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