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Bibliographies and Biographical Collections

Sources in English:

1. Brickman, William W., ed. Russian and Soviet Education, 1731-1989: A Multilingual AnnotatedBibliography (N.Y.: Garland, 1992).

2. Gillispie, Charles C., ed. Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970-1980).

3. Goodwin, Jack, ed. Technology and Culture. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1964--).4. Neu, John, ed. Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences

(Philadelphia: HSS Publications Office).5. Neu, John, ed. Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1966-1975. A Bibliography of the History of Science,

Formed from Isis Current Bibliographies 91-100. Vol. 1: Personalities and Institutions. Vol. 2: Subjects,periods, and civilizations (London: Mansell, 1980).

6. Neu, John, ed. Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1976-1985. A Bibliography of the History of Science,Formed from Isis Current Bibliographies 101-110, 2 vols. (London: Mansell, 1989-90).

7. Sokolovskaia, Z. "Importance of Scientific Biographies Published by USSR Academy of Sciences forStudying the History of Engineering and Natural Sciences," History and Technology 8:2 (1992): 139-43.

8. Whitrow, Magda, ed. Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1965. A Bibliography of the History of Science,Formed from Isis Current Bibliographies 1-90. Vol. 1: Personalities, A-J. Vol. 2: Personalities, K-Z, andInstitutions. Vol. 3: Subjects (London: Mansell, 1971-1976).

Sources in Russian:

1. Aizenshtat, L.M., et al., eds. Moskovskii universitet za 225 let: Ukazatel' literatury (Moscow: MGU,1983).

2. Fedorov, A.S., ed. Istoriia tekhniki: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 1976-1980 (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).3. Istoriia estestvoznaniia: Literatura, opublikovannaia v SSSR (Moscow: AN SSSR/Nauka, 1949--).4. Istoriia tekhniki: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moscow: AN SSSR/Nauka, 1950--).5. Materialy dlia biograficheskogo slovaria deistvitel'nykh chlenov Akademii nauk, 1889-1914 (Petrograd,

1915).6. Materialy k biobibliografii uchenykh SSSR (Moscow: Nauka).7. Sokolovskaia, Z.K. 400 biografii uchenykh: O serii "Nauchno-biograficheskaia literatura," 1959-1986:

Biobibliograficheskii spravochnik (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).

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8. Turkevich, John. Soviet Men of Science: Academicians and Corresponding Members of the Academy ofSciences of the USSR (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1963).

9. Zvorykin, A.A., ed. Biograficheskii slovar' deiatelei estestvoznaniia i tekhniki 2 vols. (Moscow: BSE,1958-1959).

Other bibliographies:

1. Basic Reference Sources: Russian History and Literature (UC Berkeley Library, Slavic Collection)2. Guide to Russian Reference Works by Wojciech Zalewski (Stanford University Libraries)

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Historiography

Sources in English:

1. Gerovitch, Slava. "Perestroika of the History of Technology and Science in the USSR: Changes in theDiscourse," Technology and Culture 37:1 (January 1996): 102-34.

2. Gerovitch, Slava. "Writing History in the Present Tense: Cold War-era Discursive Strategies of SovietHistorians of Science and Technology," in Christopher Simpson, ed., Universities and Empire: Money andPolitics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War (New York: The New Press, 1998), pp. 189-228.Abstract

3. Gouzevitch, Irina. "The History of Technology in Today's Russia," SHOT Newsletter No. 72 (June 1996):13-16.

4. Graham, Loren R. "The Socio-Political Roots of Boris Hessen: Soviet Marxism and the History ofScience," Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 705-22.

5. Gvozdetskii, V. "Problems of History of Science and Engineeering in the Work of I. Ya. Konfederatov(1902-1975)," History and Technology 8:2 (1992): 113-17.

6. The History of Science: Soviet Research, 2 vols. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1985).7. Joravsky, David. "Soviet Views on the History of Science," Isis 46 (1955): 3-13.8. Lubrano, Linda. Soviet Sociology of Science (Columbus, Ohio: AAASS, 1976).9. Rabkin, Yakov. "Naukovedenie: The Study of Scientific Research in the Soviet Union," Minerva 14

(1976): 61-78.10. Solomon, Susan Gross. "Reflections on Western Studies of Soviet Science," in Linda Lubrano and Susan

Gross Solomon, eds., The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 1-29.

11. Ustinov, N.D., ed. Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology: Development andOrganization of Research into the History of Science and Technology (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).

12. Voronkov, Yuri. "Editorial: Some Observations on the History of Technology in the USSR," History andTechnology 8:2 (1992): 81-85.

13. Vucinich, Alexander. "Soviet Marxism and the History of Science," The Russian Review 41 (1982): 123-42.

Sources in Russian:

1. Bastrakova, M. S. "Iz istorii razvitiia istoriko-nauchnykh issledovanii," VIET 61-63 (1978): 34-47.2. Ilizarov, S.S. "IIET v 1953 godu," VIET 3 (1993): 88-116.3. Ilizarov, S.S. Materialy k istoriografii istorii nauki i tekhniki: Khronika, 1917-1988 (Moscow: Nauka,

1989).4. Kirsanov, V. S. "Vozvratit'sia k istokam? Zametki ob Institute Istorii Nauki i Tekhniki AN SSSR, 1932-

1938 gg.," VIET 1 (1994): 3-19.

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5. Kuzakov, V.K. Otechnestvennaia istoriografiia istorii nauki v Rossii, X-XVII vv. (Moscow: Nauka, 1991).6. Lukina, T.A. Boris Evgen'evich Raikov (Leningrad, 1970).7. Mondzhili [Mongili], A. "Prikliucheniia naukovedeniia: sluchai Instituta istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki,"

VIET 1 (1995): 116-37 (a summary of A. Mongili, "Sociologues et sociologie des sciences en U.R.S.S.:Le cas de l'Institut d'Histoire des Sciences Naturelles et de la Technologie de Moscou." Thèse de Doctoraten sociologie [Paris, 1993]).

8. Zubov, V.P. Istoriografiia estestvennykh nauk v Rossii (XVIII v.-pervaia polovina XIX v.) (Moscow: ANSSSR, 1956).

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Archival Guides

Sources in English:

1. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. "Archival Rossica/Sovietica Abroad: Provenance or Pertinence,Bibliographic and Descriptive Needs," Cahiers du Monde russe et sovietique XXXIV (3) (juillet-septembre 1993): 431-80.

2. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1988).

3. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, ed. Archives in Russia, 1993: A Brief Directory (Washington: InternationalResearch and Exchanges Board, 1993).

4. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. A Handbook for Archival Research in the USSR (Washington, D.C.: KennanInstitute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1989).

5. Karasik, Theodore William. The Post-Soviet Archives: Organization, Access and Declassification (SantaMonica, CA: Rand, 1993).

Sources in Russian:

1. Arkhiv Akademii nauk SSSR. Obozrenie arkhivnykh materialov (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1933-).2. Burds, Jeffrey, and S.V. Mironenko, eds. Fondy Gosudarstvennogo Arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii po istorii

RSFSR (Moscow, 1994).3. Burds, Jeffrey, et al., eds. Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Ekonomiki: Putevoditel', 2 vols. (Moscow,

1994).4. Deiateli russkoi nauki XIX-pervoi chetverti XX vekov: Obzor literatury i istochnikov (St. Petersburg: AN

SSSR, 1991).5. Dokumenty GAF SSSR v bibliotekakh, muzeiakh i nauchno-otraslevykh arkhivakh: Spravochnik

(Moscow: Mysl', 1991).6. Dremina, G.A. Tsentral'nye gosudarstvennye arkhivy SSSR 1945-1970 gg.: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow,

1977).7. Filippov, N.G. Nauchno-technicheskie obshchestva Rossii, 1866-1917 (Moscow: MGIAI, 1975).8. Filippov, N.G. Nauchno-technicheskie obshchestva SSSR, 2 vols. (Moscow: MGIAI, 1977-1981).9. Freeze, Gregory L., and S.V. Mironenko, eds. Fondy Gosudarstvennogo Arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii po

istorii Rossii XIX-nachala XX vv. (Moscow, 1994).10. Getty, J. Arch, and V.P. Kozlov. Rossiiskii Tsentr Khraneniia i Izucheniia Dokumentov Noveishei Istorii

(RTSKhIDNI): Kratkii putevoditel': fondy i kollektsii, sobrannye Tsentralnym partiinym arkhivom(Moscow: Blagovest, 1993).

11. Gosudarstvennye arkhivy RSFSR: Spravochnik-putevoditel' (Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossia, 1980).12. Gosudarstvennye arkhivy SSSR: Spravochnik, 2 vols. (Moscow: Mysl', 1989).13. Korneev, V.E. Arkhivy VKP(b), 1926-1941 gg.: uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: MGIAI, 1981).



14. Lichnye fondy v gosudarstvennykh khranilishchakh SSSR: Ukazatel', 2 vols. (Moscow: GlavnoeArkhivnoe upravlenie, 1962-63).

15. Samoshenko, V.N. Istoricheskie arkhivy dorevolutsionnoi Rossii: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: MGIAI,1986).

16. Stepanskii, A.D. Istoriia nauchnykh uchrezhdenii i organizatsii dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii (Moscow:MGIAI, 1987).

17. Strekopytov, S.P. Gosudarstvennoe rukovodstvo naukoi v SSSR, 1936-1958: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow:RGGU, 1991).

18. Strekopytov, S.P. Organy gosudarstvennogo rukovodstva naukoi i nauchnymi uchrezhdeniiami-fondoobrazovateliami Gosudarstvennogo arkhivnogo fonda SSSR, 1917-1936: Uchebnoe posobie(Moscow: MGIAI, 1987).

19. Strekopytov, S.P. Vysshii Sovet Narodnogo Khoziaistva i sovetskaia nauka, 1917-1932: Uchebnoe posobie(Moscow: MGIAI, 1990).

20. Tsentral'nyi Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov SSSR: Putevoditel', vol. 1 (Moscow, 1991).


1. Published collections of Soviet archival documents2. Russian Archive Series publications

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Special topics

1. Science policy2. Organization of science and technology3. Scientific and engineering education4. Science, technology, and political ideology5. International contacts and comparisons6. Science, technology, and gender



Science Policy

Sources in English:

1. Amann, Ronald. "The Soviet Research and Development System: The Pressures of Academic Traditionand Rapid Industrialization," Minerva 8 (April 1970): 217-41.

2. Balzer, Harley. Soviet Science on the Edge of Reform (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1989).3. Berliner, Joseph S. The Innovation Decision in Soviet Industry (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976).4. Cocks, Paul. "Science Policy and the Soviet Development Strategy," in Alexander Dallin, ed., The

Twenty-Fifth Congress of the CPSU: Assessment and Context (Stanford, 1977), pp. 39-52.5. Cocks, Paul. Science Policy, USA-USSR. Vol. II: Science Policy in the Soviet Union (Washington: NSF,

1980).6. Davies, R.W. "Research, Development, and Innovation in the Soviet Economy, 1968-1970," in D.O. Edge

and J.W. Wolfe, eds., Meaning and Control: Essays in Social Aspects of Science and Technology (London:Tavistock Publications, 1973).

7. Fortescue, Stephen. Science Policy in the Soviet Union (London: Routledge, 1990).8. Graham, Loren R. "The Development of Science Policy in the Soviet Union," in T. Dixon Long and

Christopher Wright, eds., Science Policies of Industrial Nations (New York: Praeger, 1975), pp. 12-58.9. Graham, Loren R. "Science and Technology Trends in the Soviet Union," in Herbert Fusfeld, ed.,

Framework for Interaction: Technical Structures in Selected Countries outside the European Community(Troy, N.Y.: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987), pp. II-D-1 to II-D-44.

10. Graham, Loren R., and Irina Dezhina, Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform (Bloomington, IN:Indiana University Press, 2008).

11. Gustafson, Thane. "Why Doesn't Soviet Science Do Better Than It Does?" in Linda Lubrano and SusanGross Solomon, eds., The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980), pp.31-68.

12. Josephson, Paul. "Science Policy in the Soviet Union, 1917-1927," Minerva 26:3 (Autumn 1988): 342-69.13. Kneen, Peter. Soviet Scientists and the State (Albany: SUNY Press, 1984).14. Lewis, Robert A. "Some Aspects of the Research and Development Effort in the Soviet Union, 1924-

1935," Science Studies 2 (1972): 153-79.15. Lubrano, Linda. "Policy-Making in the USSR Academy of Sciences," Journal of Contemporary History

8:4 (October 1973).

















16. Lubrano, Linda. "New Initiatives and Old Bureaucrats," Technology in Society 13 (1991): 91-108.17. Lubrano, Linda, and Susan Gross Solomon, eds. The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.:

Westview Press, 1980).18. Lubrano, Linda. "Soviet Science Policy and the Scientific Establishment," Survey 17:4 (Autumn 1971):

51-63.19. Nolting, Louvan E. The Planning of Research, Development, and Innovation in the USSR. Foreign

Economic Report No. 14 (Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce, 1978).20. Nolting, Louvan E. The Structure and Functions of the USSR State Committee for Science and

Technology. Foreign Economic Report No. 16 (Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce, 1979).21. Parrott, Bruce. Information Transfer in Soviet Science and Engineering: A Study of documentary

Channels. Report R-2667-ARPA (Santa Monica: Rand, 1981).22. The Status of Soviet Civil Science: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Soviet Scientific Research,

NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belguim, September 24-26, 1986 (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer AcademicPublishers, 1987).

23. Sagdeev, Roald. "Science and Perestroika: A Long way to Go," Issues in Science and Technology 4:4(1988): 48-52.

24. Sheynin, Ju.M. Science Policy: Problems and Trends (Moscow: Progress, 1978).25. Thomas, John R., and Ursula Kruse Vaucienne, eds. Soviet Science and Technology: Domestic and

Foreign Perspectives (Washington, D.C.: 1976).26. Zaleski, E., et al. Science Policy in the USSR (Paris: OECD, 1969).

Sources in Russian:

1. Esakov, V.D. Sovetskaia nauka v gody pervoi piatiletki: Osnovnye napravleniia gosudarstvennogorukovodstva naukoi (Moscow: Nauka, 1971).

2. Gorodetskii, E.N. "K istorii leninskogo plana nauchno-tekhnicheskikh rabot." In Iz istorii revoliutsionnoi igosudarstvennoi deiatel'nosti V.I. Lenina (Moscow: MGU, 1960).

3. Lebedeva, N.V., and A.V. Losik. "Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia revoliutsiia i politika partii," Voprosy istoriiKPSS 2 (1991): 53-64.

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Organization of Science and Technology

Sources in English:

1. Adams, Mark. "Science, Ideology, and Structure: The Kol'tsov Institute, 1900-1970," in Linda Lubranoand Susan Gross Solomon, eds., The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,1980), pp. 173-204.

2. Graham, Loren R. "The Formation of Soviet Research Institutes: A Combination of RevolutionaryInnovation and International Borrowing," in Don Karl Rowney and G. Edward Orchard, eds., Russian andSlavic History (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1977), pp. 49-75.

3. Graham, Loren R. "The Place of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in the Overall Organization of SovietScience," in Thomas, John R., and Ursula Kruse Vaucienne, eds., Soviet Science and Technology:Domestic and Foreign Perspectives (Washington, D.C.: 1976).

4. Graham, Loren R. "Reorganization of the USSR Academy of Sciences," in Peter Juviler and HenryMorton, eds., Soviet Policy-Making (New York: Praeger, 1967), pp. 133-62.

5. Gvishiani, D.M., et al., eds. The Scientific Intelligentsiia in the USSR: Structure and Dynamics ofpersonnel (Moscow: Progress, 1976).

6. Korol, Alexander. Soviet Research and Development: Its Organization, Personnel and Funds (Cambridge,Mass.: MIT Press, 1965).



7. Lewis, Robert A. "Government and the Technological Sciences in the Soviet Union: The Rise of theAcademy of Sciences," Minerva 14:2 (Summer 1977): 174-99.

8. Lubrano, Linda. "The Hidden Structure of Soviet Science," Science, Technology, and Human Values 18(Spring 1993): 147-75.

9. Nolting, Louvan E. The 1968 Reform of Scientific Research, Development, and Innovation in the USSR.Foreign Economic Report No. 11 (Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce, 1976).

10. Swanson, James M. "The Bolshevization of Scientific Societies in the Soviet Union: An HistoricalAnalysis of the Character, Function, and Legal Position of Scientific and Scientific-Technical Societies inthe USSR, 1929-1936." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1968.

11. Urban, Paul K., and Andrew I. Lebed, eds. Soviet Science, 1917-1970 (Mentuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press,1971).

Sources in Russian:

1. Bastrakova, M.S. Stanovlenie sovetskoi sistemy organizatsii nauki, 1917-1922 (Moscow: Nauka, 1973).2. Beliaev, E.A., and N.S. Pashkova. Formirovanie i razvitie seti nauchnykh uchrezhdenii SSSR (Moscow:

Nauka, 1979).3. Bol'shakova, K.G., ed. Problemy organizatsii nauki v trudakh sovetskikh uchenykh, 1917-1930-e gody:

Sbornik materialov i dokumentov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1990).4. Bukharin, N.I. Izbrannye trudy: istoriia i organizatsiia nauki i tekhniki (Leningrad: Nauka, 1988).5. Bykhovskii, B.E., ed. Organizatsiia sovetskoi nauki v 1926-1932 gg.: Sbornik dokumentov (Leningrad:

Nauka, 1974).6. Ivanova, L.V. "Professional'noe ob"edinenie uchenykh v 1917-1923 gg.," in Iu.A. Poliakov, ed., Velikii

Oktiabr': Istoriia, istoriografiia, istochnikovedenie (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).7. Kol'tsov, A.V. Lenin i stanovlenie Akademii nauk kak tsentra sovetskoi nauki (Leningrad: Nauka, 1969).8. Kol'tsov, A.V. Razvitie Akademii Nauk kak vysshego nauchnogo uchrezhdeniia SSSR, 1926-1932

(Leningrad: Nauka, 1982).9. Kol'tsov, A.V. Rol' Akademii Nauk v organizatsii regional'nykh tsentrov SSSR, 1917-1961 (Leningrad:

Nauka, 1988).10. Kozlov, B.I. Organizatsiia i razvitie otraslevykh nauchno-issledovatel'skikh institutov Leningrada, 1917-

1977 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1979).11. Lakhtin, G.A. Organizatsiia sovetskoi nauki: Istoriia i sovremennost' (Moscow: Nauka, 1990).12. Lebin, B.D., ed. Ocherki organizatsii nauki v Leningrade: 1703-1977 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1980).13. Levshin, B.V., ed. Dokumenty po istorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1917-1925 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1986).14. Levshin, B.V., ed. Dokumenty po istorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1926-1934 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1988).15. Mitriakova, N.M. "Struktura, nauchnye uchrezhdeniia i kadry AN SSSR, 1917-1925," in Organizatsiia

nauchnoi deiatel'nosti (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).16. Ostrovitianov, K.V., ed. Organizatsiia nauki v pervye gody Sovetskoi vlasti, 1917-1925: Sbornik

dokumentov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1968).17. Shul'gina I.V. Infrastruktura nauki v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).18. Soboleva, E.V. Bor'ba za reorganizatsiiu Peterburgskoi akademii nauk v seredine XIX veka (Leningrad:

Nauka, 1971).19. Soboleva, E.V. Organizatsiia nauki v poreformennoi Rossii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1983).

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Scientific and Engineering Education

Sources in English:



1. Ailes, Catherine P., and Francis W. Rushing. The Science Race: Training and Utilization of Scientists andEngineers, US and USSR (New York: Crane, Russak & Co., 1982).

2. Balzer, Harley. "Educating Engineers: Economic Politics and Technical Training in Tsarist Russia." Ph.D.dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.

3. Brower, Daniel R. Training the Nihilists: Education and Radicalism in Tsarist Russia (Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press, 1975).

4. DeWitt, Nicholas. Education and Professional Employment in the USSR (Washington, D.C., 1961).5. Fitzpatrick, Anne Lincoln. The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-1890 (New York: St.

Martin's, 1990).6. Flynn, James T. The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I, 1802-1835 (Washington, D.C.: Catholic

University of America Press, 1988).7. Kassow, Samuel D. Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1989).8. Kassow, Samuel D. "The University Statute of 1863," in Ben Eklof et al., eds., Russia's Great Reforms,

1855-1881 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 247-63.9. Korol, Alexander. Soviet Education for Science and Technology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Technology

Press, 1958).10. Mathes, William L. "The Origins of Confrontation Politics in Russian Universitites: Student Activism,

1855-1861," Canadian Slavic Studies 2 (1968): 28-45.11. McClelland, James. Autocrats and Academics: Education, Culture and Society in Tsarist Russia (Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1979).12. McClelland, James. "Bolshevik Approaches to Higher Education, 1917-1921," Slavic Review 30 (1971):

818-31.13. Nolting, Louvan, and Murray Feshbach. "Research and Development Employment in the USSR," Science

207 (February 1980): 493-503.14. Okenfuss, Max J. "The Jesuit Origins of Petrine Education: Russian Students in Europe in the Age of

Peter the Great," in J.G. Garrard, ed., The Eighteenth Century in Russia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).15. Okenfuss, Max J. "Technical Training in Russia under Peter the Great," History of Education Quarterly 13

(1973): 325-45.16. Whittaker, Cynthia. The Origins of Modern Russian Education: An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei

Uvarov, 1786-1855 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1984).

Sources in Russian:

1. A.Iu. Andreev. Moskovskii universitet v obshchestvennoi i kul'turnoi zhizni Rossii nachala XIX veka(Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kul'tury, 2000).

2. Eroshkin, N.P., ed. Gosudarstvennoe rukovodstvo vysshei shkoloi v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii i SSSR(Moscow: MGIAI, 1979).

3. Galkin, K.T. Vysshee obrazovanie i podgotovka nauchnykh kadrov v SSSR (Moscow: Sovetskaia nauka,1958).

4. Doroshenko, V.A., et al., comps. Letopis' Moskovskogo universiteta, 1755-1979 (Moscow: MGU, 1979).5. Ivanov, A.E. Vysshaia shkola Rossii v kontse XIX-nachale XX veka (Moscow: AN SSSR, Institut istorii

SSSR, 1991).6. Ivanova, L.V. "Problema formirovaniia nauchnoi intelligentsii SSSR v sovetskoi istoriografii," in

Problemy istorii obshchestvennoi mysli i istoriografii (Moscow, 1971).7. Kizevetter, A. "Moskovskii Universitet," in V.B. El'iashevich et al., eds., Moskovskii Universitet, 1755-

1930 (Paris, 1930), pp. 9-118.8. Kupaigorodskaia, A.P. Sovetskaia vyshsaia shkola, 1917-1927 (Nauka, 1991).9. Kupaigorodskaia, A.P. Vysshaia shkola Leningrada v pervye gody Sovetskoi vlasi, 1917-1925 (Leningrad:

Nauka, 1984).10. Moskovskii universitet za 50 let Sovetskoi vlasti (Moscow: MGU, 1967).11. Penchko, N.A. Dokumenty i materialy po istorii Moskovskogo universiteta vtoroi poloviny XVIII veka, 3

vols. (Moscow: MGU, 1960-1963).



12. Sukhomlinov, M. Materialy k istorii narodnogo obrazovaniia pri Aleksandre I. 10 vols. (Sankt-Peterburg:Tip. Imp. akademii nauk, 10 vols. 1885-1900).

13. Tikhomirov, M.N., et al., eds. Istoriia Moskovskogo universiteta, 1755-1955 (Moscow: MGU, 1955).14. Ul'ianovskaia, V.A. Formirovanie nauchnoi intelligentsii v SSSR, 1917-1937 (Moscow: Nauka, 1966).


1. History of Moscow University.

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Science, Technology, and Political Ideology

Sources in English:

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International Contacts and Comparisons

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Science, Technology, and Gender

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

1. General2. Mathematics3. Astronomy4. Physics5. Chemistry6. Earth sciences7. Biology8. Physiology and medicine9. Environmental studies



Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: General

Sources in English:

1. Denny, Joseph H., and Paul M. Mitchell. "Russian Translations of the Encyclopédie," in Frank A. Kafker,ed., Notable Encyclopedias of the Late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie (Oxford: TheVoltaire Foundation, 1994).

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4. Kniazev, G.A. Kratkii ocherk istorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 3rd ed. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).5. Komkov, G.D., et al. Akademiia Nauk SSSR: Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk, 2 vols. (Moscow: Nauka,

1977).6. Kopelevich, Iu.Kh. Osnovanie Peterburgskoi akademii nauk, (Leningrad: Nauka, 1977).7. Kuzakov, V.K. Ocherki razvitiia estestvennonauchnykh i tekhnicheskikh predstavlenii na Rusi v X-XVII

vv. (Moscow: Nauka, 1976).8. Lazarev, P.P. Ocherki russkoi nauki (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1950).9. Materialy dlia istorii imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 2 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1885).

10. Mikulinskii, S.R., and A.P. Iushkevich, eds. Razvitie estestvoznaniia v Rossii: XVIII-nachalo XX veka(Moscow: Nauka, 1977).

11. Pekarskii, P.P. Istoriia imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v Peterburge, 2 vols. (1870-1873).12. Rainov, T. Nauka v Rossii XI-XVII vekov: Ocherki po istorii donauchnykh i estestvenno-nauchnykh

vozzrenii na prirodu (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1940).13. Riazanovskii, V.A. Razvitie russkoi nauchnoi mysli v XVIII-XX vv.: Nauki o prirode (New York, 1949).14. Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk: 275 let sluzheniia Rossii (Moscow: Ianus-K, 1999).15. Simonov, R.A., ed. Estestvennonauchnye predstavlennia Drevnei Rusi (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).16. Simonov, R.A., ed. Estestvennonauchnye predstavlennia Drevnei Rusi: Schiclenie let, simvolika chisel,

"otrechennye" knigi, astrologiia, mineralogiia (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).17. Simonov, R.A., ed. Estestvennonauchnye znaniia v Drevnei Rusi (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).18. Vernadskii, V.I. Trudy po istorii nauki v Rossii (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Mathematics

Sources in English:

1. Daniels, Norman. "Lobachevsky: Some Anticipations of Later Views on the Relations between Geometryand Physics," Isis 65 (1975): 75-85.

2. Demidov, S.S. "From the Early History of the Moscow School of Function Theory," PhilosophiaMathematica 3 (1988): 29-35.

3. Ford, Charles E. "Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and Religion in Moscow," The Mathematical Intelligencer13 (1991): 24-30.

4. Graham, Loren, and Jean-Michel Kantor. Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism andMathematical Creativity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)

5. Kagan, N. Lobachevsky and His Contribution to Science (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House,1957).

6. Koblitz, Ann H. A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Boston:Birkhauser, 1983).

7. Kochina, P.Ia. Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya (Moscow: Mir, 1985).8. Kosmodemyansky, A.A. Nikolai Zhukovsky (Moscow: Mir, 1987).9. Rosenfeld, Boris. A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry (Springer, 1988).

10. Sheynin, Oscar. "Chebyshev's Lectures on the Theory of Probability," Archive for History of ExactSciences 46:4 (1994): 321-40.

11. Sheynin, Oscar. "Mendeleev and the Mathematical Treatment of Observations in Natural Science,"Historia Mathematica 23:1 (1996).

12. Sheynin, Oscar. "On V. Ya. Buniakovsky's Work in the Theory of Probability," Archive for History ofExact Sciences 43:3 (1991): 199-224.

13. Vucinich, Alexander. "Mathematics in Russian Culture," Journal of the History of Ideas 21 (1960): 161-79.

14. Vucinich, Alexander. "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: The Man Behind the First Non-EuclideanGeometry," Isis 53 (1962): 465-81.



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2. Bazhanov, V.A. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Vasil'ev, 1880-1940. (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).3. Borodin, A.I., and A.S. Bugai. Vydaiushchiesia matematiki: Biograficheskii slovar'-spravochnik, 2nd ed.

(Kiev: Radians'ka shkola, 1987).4. Denisov, A.P. Leontii Filippovich Magnitskii (Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1967).5. Florenskij, P.A. Mnimosti v geometrii (in German). Nachdruck nebst einer einfuhrenden Studie von

Michael Hagemeister (Munchen: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1985).6. Galanin, D.D. L.F. Magnitskii i ego "Arifmetika", 3 vols. (Moscow, 1914).7. Gnedenko, B.V., and I.B. Pogrebysskii. Mikhail Vasil'evich Ostrogradskii: Zhizn' i rabota. Nauchnoe i

pedagogicheskoe nasledie (Moscow: Nauka, 1963).8. Gudhov, D.A. N.I. Lobachevskii: Zagadki biografii (Nizhnii Novgorod: Izdatel'stvo Nizhegorodskogo

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10. Ignatsius, G.I. Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).11. Istoriko-matematicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Gostekhiz/Nauka, 1948--).12. Iushkevich, A.P. Istoriia matematiki v Rossii do 1917 goda (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).13. Khanovich, I.G. Akademik Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1967).14. Kolmogorov, A.N., and A.P. Iushkevich, eds. Matematika XIX veka: Chebyshevskoe napravlenie v teorii

funktsii. Obyknovennye differentsial'nye uravneniia. Variatsionnoe ischislenie. Teoriia konechnykhraznostei (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).

15. Kolmogorov, A.N., and A.P. Iushkevich, eds. Matematika XIX veka: Geometriia. Teoriia analiticheskikhfunktsii (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).

16. Krylov, A.N. Pafnutii L'vovich Chebyshev (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1944).17. Lysenko, V.I. Nikolai Ivanovich Fuss (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).18. Ozhigova, E.P. Matematika v Peterburgskoi Akademii nauk v kontse XVIII-pervoi polovine XIX veka

(Leningrad: Nauka, 1980).19. Ozhigova, E.P. Razvitie teorii chisel v Rossii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1972).20. Prudnikov, V.E. Pafnutii L'vovich Chebyshev (Leningrad: Nauka, 1976).21. Putiata, T.V., et al. Aleksandr Petrovich Kotel'nikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).22. Shtokalo, I.Z., ed. Istoriia otechestvennoi matematiki, vol. 1: S drevneishikh vremen do kontsa XVIII v.;

vol. 2: 1801-1917 (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1966-1970).23. Simonov, R.A. Matematicheskaia mysl' Drevnei Rusi (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).24. Vasil'ev, A.V. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii, 1792-1856 (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Astronomy

Sources in English:

1. Batten, Alan H. Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve (Dordrecht:D. Reidel, 1988).

2. Dvoichenko-Markov, Eufrosina. "The Pulkovo Observatory and Some American Astronomers of the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Isis, 43 (1952): 243-46.

3. Struve, Otto. "The Pulkovo Observatory, 1839-1941," Sky and Telescope 1(4) (1941): 3-14, 19.

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2. Blazhko, S.N. "Istoriia Moskovskoi astronomicheskoi observatorii v sviazi s istoriei prepodavaniiaastronomii v universitete, 1824-1920," Uchenye zapiski Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 58(1940): 5-106.

3. Chenakal, V.L. Ocherki po istorii russkoi astronomii: Nabliudatel'naia astronomiia v Rossii XVII i nachalaXVIII v. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1951).

4. Fesenkov, V.G. "Ocherk istorii astronomii v Rossii v XVII i XVIII stoletiiakh," Trudy Instituta istoriiestestvoznaniia i tekhniki II (1948): 3-25.

5. Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Fizmatizdat/Nauka, 1955--).6. Kulikovskii, P.G. M.V. Lomonosov--astronom i astrofizik, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).7. Kulikovskii, P.G. Pavel Karlovich Shternberg (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).8. Lavrinovich, K.K. "Istoki Pulkovskogo fenomena," Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia 23 (1991):

64-89.9. Loginova, G.P., and V.G. Selikhanovich. Aleksei Nikolaevich Savich (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).

10. Lutskii, V.K. Istoriia astronomicheskikh obshchestvennykh organizatsii v SSSR, 1888-1941 (Moscow:Nauka, 1982).

11. Nevskaia, N.I. Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (Moscow and Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).12. Nevskaia, N.I. Nikita Ivanovich Popov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1977).13. Nevskaia, N.I. Peterburgskaia astronomicheskaia shkola XVIII v. (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).14. Novokshanova (Sokolovskaia), Z.K. Vasilii Iakovlevich Struve (Moscow: Nauka, 1964).15. Pavlova, G.E. Stepan Iakovlevich Rumovskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1979).16. Perel', Iu.G. Vydaiushchiesia russkie astronomy (Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1951).17. Slastenov, A.I. Astronomiia v Khar'kovskom universitete za 150 let, 1805-1955 (Khar'kov: Izd-vo

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Physics

Sources in English:

1. Boss, Valentin. Newton and Russia: The Early Influence, 1698-1796 (Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press, 1972).

2. Home, R.W. "Science as Career in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Case of F.U.T. Aepinus," Slavonic andEast European Review 51 (1973): 75-94.

3. Pechenkin A.A. "The Importance of the Strasbourg Period in L.I. Mandelstam's Life for His Further Workin Science." NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology andMedicine 7 (1999): 93-104.

4. Vizgin, V.P., and G.E. Gorelik. "The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR," inThomas Glick, ed., The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987), pp. 265-326.

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Chemistry

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Earth Sciences

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Geologiia, geografiia (Moscow: Fizmatgiz, 1962).17. Lebedev, D.M. Ocherki po istorii geografii v Rossii XV i XVI vekov (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1956).18. Markin, V.A. Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (Moscow: Nauka, 1985).19. Mochalov, I.I. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).20. Novokshanova-Sokolovskaia, Z.K. Kartograficheskie i geodezicheskie raboty v Rossii v XIX-nachale XX

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Biology

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Physiology and Medicine



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1965).5. Grigorian, N.A. Kazanskaia fiziologicheskaia shkola (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).6. Iaroshevskii, M.G. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1968).7. Iaroshevskii, M.G. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov i mirovaia psikhologicheskaia mysl' (Moscow: Nauka,

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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Environmental Studies

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

1. General2. Civil engineering3. Transportation4. Energy conversion5. Mining industry6. Chemical industry7. Military technology



Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: General

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Civil Engineering

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Transportation

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Energy Conversion

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Mining Industry

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2. Fomin, P.I. Gornaia i gornozavodskaia promyshlennost' iuga Rossii, 2 vols. (Khar'kov, 1915-24).3. Istoriia chernoi metallurgii i metalloobrabotki na territorii USSR, III v. do n.e.-III v. n.e. (Kiev: Naukova

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13. Ziniakov, N.M. Istoriia chernoi metallurgii i kuznechnogo remesla drevnego Altaia (Tomsk: Izd-voTomskogo universiteta, 1988).

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Chemical Industry

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Technology in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Military Technology

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3. Bellamy, Christopher. "The Russian Artillery and the Origins of Indirect Fire," Journal of Soviet MilitaryStudies 3 (1990): 491-512.

4. Bradley, Joseph. Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia (De Kalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1990).

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6. Coopersmith, Jonathan. "The Role of the Military in the Electrification of Russia, 1870-1890," in E.Mendelsohn, M.R. Smith, and P. Weingart, eds., Science, Technology, and the Military (Dordrecht/Boston:D. Reidel, 1988), pp. 291-305.

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6/20/2021 Soviet and post-Soviet science





Soviet and Post-Soviet Science

1. General2. Mathematics3. Astronomy4. Physics5. The Atomic project6. Chemistry7. Earth sciences8. Biology9. Physiology and medicine

10. Environmental studies



Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: General

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2. Graham, Loren R. Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge, Mass.:Cambridge University Press, 1993).

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Profile (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1979).8. Kruze-Vaucienne, Ursula M., and John R. Thomas, eds. Soviet Science and Technology: Domestic and

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of Science," Slavic Review 47 (1988): 261-79.10. Medvedev, Zhores. Soviet Science (New York: Norton, 1978).11. Vucinich, Alexander. Empire of Knowledge: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917-1970)

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2. Fersman, A.E., ed. Akademiia Nauk SSSR za desiat' let, 1917-1927 (Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1927).3. Ioffe, A.F., et al., eds. Nauka i tekhnika SSSR, 1917-1927 (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1926).4. Kniazev, G.A.. Kratkii ocherk istorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 3rd ed. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).5. Komkov, G.D., et al. Akademiia Nauk SSSR: Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk, 2 vols. (Moscow: Nauka,

1977).6. Levshin, B.V. Sovetskaia nauka v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).7. Matematika i estestvoznanie v SSSR: Ocherki razvitiia matematicheskikh i estestvennykh nauk za

dvadtsat' let (Moscow/Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1938).8. Nauka i tekhnika SSSR, 1917-1987: Khronika (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).9. Perchenok, F.F. "Akademiia nauk na velikom perelome," in G.V. Belkova et al., eds., Zven'ia: Istoricheskii

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Mathematics

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3. Levin, Alexey E. "Anatomy of a Public Campaign: 'Academician Luzin's Case' in Soviet PoliticalHistory," Slavic Review 49 (1990): 211-52.

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nachale 30-kh godov," Voprosy filosofii, no. 9 (1991): 32-43.5. Borodin, A.I., and A.S. Bugai. Vydaiushchiesia matematiki: Biograficheskii slovar'-spravochnik, 2nd ed.

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Astronomy

(see also The Space Program)

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Physics

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2. Bessarab, Maiia. Landau: Stranitsy zhizni (Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1978).3. Bogush, A.A. Ocherki po istorii fiziki mikromira (Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika, 1990).4. Boiko, E.S. Shkola akademika A.A. Andronova (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).5. Borovik-Romanov, A.S., ed. Aleksandr Iosifovich Shal'nikov: Ocherki, vospominaniia, materialy (St.

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Soviet and Post-Soviet science: The Atomic Project

Sources in English:

1. Babyonyshev, Alexander, ed. On Sakharov (New York: Knopf, 1982).2. Balogh, Brian. Chain Reaction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).3. Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb's Early Light (New York: Pantheon, 1985).4. Breizman, Boris N., and James W. van Dam, eds. G.I. Budker: Reflections and Remembrances (New

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(Moscow: Fizicheskoe obshchestvo SSSR "Mir," 1991).4. Gasparian, B.G., and V.Ia. Frenkel', eds. Akademik A.I. Alikhanov: Vospominaniia, pis'ma, dokumenty

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Chemistry

Sources in English:

1. Ipatieff, V.N. Life of a Chemist (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1946).2. Rabkin, Yakov. "Trends and Forces in the Soviet History of Chemistry," Isis 67 (1976): 257-73.3. Turkevich, John. Chemistry in the Soviet Union (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965).

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Nauka, 1967).4. Kovner, M.A. "Razvitie kvantovoi khimii v SSSR (1930-1980)," VIET, no. 1 (1990): 28-37.5. Kozlov, V.V. Ocherki istorii khimicheskikh obshchestv SSSR (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1958).6. Kretovich, V.L. Ocherki po istorii biokhimii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).7. Kuznetsov, V.I., and A.M. Maksimenko. Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipat'ev (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).8. Laman, N.K. Vera Il'inichna Glebova (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).9. Shchelokov, R.N., ed. Vydaiushchiesia sovetskie khimiki akademiki A.A. Grinberg i I.I. Cherniaev

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Earth Sciences

Sources in English:

1. Bailes, Kendall E. Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolution: Vernadsky and His ScientificSchool, 1863-1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Biology

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Physiology and Medicine

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Science: Environmental Studies

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology

1. General2. Land and marine transportation3. Air transportation4. The space program5. Energy conversion6. Nuclear industry7. Mining industry8. Chemical industry9. Computing and cybernetics

10. Military technology



Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: General

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Land and Marine Transportation

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Air Transportation

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: The Space Program

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Energy Conversion

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Nuclear Industry

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Mining Industry

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Chemical Industry

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Computing and Cybernetics

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