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The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

By: Maria Rogacheva

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The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

By: Maria Rogacheva

Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108171338

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Soviet Scientists Remember

Oral Histories of the Cold War Generation

By: Maria A. Rogacheva

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Soviet Scientists Remember

Oral Histories of the Cold War Generation

By: Maria A. Rogacheva

Maria Rogacheva’s Soviet Scientists Remember gives voice to one of the most prominent and educated groups in the late USSR: scientists. Lifting the veil of secrecy that covered scientists during the Cold War, this book brings together six first-person accounts of residents of the formerly closed scientific town of Chernogolovka. In their interviews, scientists talk about growing up in Stalin’s Russia and surviving the Great Patriotic War, their decision to join the scientific intelligentsia, and the outstanding opportunities that were available to them in the heyday of the Cold War. They reflect on their daily lives in a privileged scientific community and their relationship with the Soviet state and the Communist Party. Soviet Scientists Remember sheds light on how ordinary people experienced the transformation of Soviet society after Stalin’s death, as well as its tumultuous transition to the post-Soviet era in the 1990s.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498574351

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9781498574358

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

By: Maria Rogacheva

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By: Maria Rogacheva

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

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Soviet Scientists Remember

Oral Histories of the Cold War Generation

By: Maria A. Rogacheva

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Oral Histories of the Cold War Generation

By: Maria A. Rogacheva

This book examines what it was like to be a Soviet citizen by examining first-person accounts of the Cold War generation of Soviet scientists--one of the most prominent and educated groups in the late Soviet Union.

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1498574343

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The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

Soviet Scientists Remember

Soviet Scientists Remember

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

Soviet Scientists Remember

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