The papers given by the Soviet delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N.I. Bukharin, exerted a profound influence on Western historiography of science. Perhaps the most influential contribution was that of Hessen, who made a long and classical statement of Marxist historiography, taking Isaac Newton as his example.
The papers given by the Soviet delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N...