The perversion of knowledge: the true story of Soviet science

A history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, including new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko's pseudo-biology. [book cover].

  • OCLC #: 47867618
  • ISBN #:
    • 0813339073
    • 9780813339078
  • Call #: Q127.S65B57 2001
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Staff Office-434 — Q127 .S65 B57 2001
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Parrish Collection on Soviet History.
  • Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.
  • Physical Description: xx, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Contents:
    • Science Under Siege --
    • The Academy of Sciences: Beginnings --
    • The Tactical Center Case --
    • An Appeal Without an Answer --
    • Class Selection --
    • The Last Straw --
    • Cleansing --
    • The Party Knows Better --
    • The Doctors' Plot Case, the Allilueva Case, and the JAC Case --
    • Memories --
    • Psychological Underpinnings --
    • Deadly Science --
    • The First Secret Laboratories --
    • The Laboratory of Death: A Short History --
    • The Lab After Mairanovsky --
    • Experiments --
    • Warfare and Sabotage --
    • The Victims --
    • Executions --
    • Collaborators --
    • Mairanovsky's Career --
    • Mairanovsky's Colleagues --
    • Scientists Who Knew and Approved --
    • The Gulag's "Academicians," Gidroproekt and Dalstroi --
    • The "Academicians" Bridging Security and Politics --
    • "Honorary Retirement" for Executioners --
    • Informers --
    • Some Bitter Thoughts --
    • Resistance --
    • Nikolai Koltsov's Study in 1920 --
    • Protestors of the 1930s-1940s: Vavilov and Pryanishnikov --
    • Within the Atomic Project --
    • Some Opposition --
    • The August 1948 Session: General Facts --
    • Those Who Lost and Those Who Gained --
    • A Typical Lysenkoist --
    • The Cruzin Case --
    • Two Who Did Not Bow --
    • More Opposition in Moscow --
    • Dissent from the Late 1950s to the 1970s.
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