Osiris, Volume 23 : Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960

ISBN-13: 9780226304571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 316 str.

Michael Gordin; Karl Hall; Alexei Kojevnikov

Opis

The newest annual volume of "Osiris," "Intelligentsia Science" explores the transformations in science in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, from serfdom to Sputnik, as a series of developments in Russian culture.
The contributors argue that it was the generation of the 1860s that transformed intelligentsia into a central notion of Russian popular discourse, cementing its association with revolutionary politics and with science. Science became the cornerstone of the intelligentsia s ideological and political projects, either as an alternative to socialism, or more often as its nominal "raison d etre." The Russian century may in fact be over, but the interrelation of the intelligentsia and science to form intelligentsia science proves enduring."