Introduction: Stalin, science, and politics after the Second World War -- "A Marxist should not write like that": the crisis on the "philosophical front" -- "Th

Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to st

World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international

Writing with extraordinary candor, Dr. Sagdeev reveals startling details of the most politically sensitive scientific issues of the Cold War years. He identifie

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