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1. Scientific Russian: Readings in Russian Science and Technology by Natasha Simes-Timofeeva, Marina Rappoport | |
Paperback: 156
Pages
(1993-06)
list price: US$20.00 -- used & new: US$23.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0840385862 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
2. What Have We Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? by Loren Graham | |
![]() | Hardcover: 196
Pages
(1998-03-01)
list price: US$50.00 -- used & new: US$42.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0804729859 Average Customer Review: ![]() Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
Editorial Review Product Description At the time the Soviet Union broke apart in the late 1980’s, it possessed the largest scientific community in the world. The rapid development, in just a few decades, of such an immense scientific establishmentin a social and economic environment strikingly different from the Westpresents an unusual opportunity for the world’s leading authority on Soviet science to examine how the Russian experience sheds light on the status and character of science and technology throughout the world. The book is organized around five questions, each given its own chapter: Is Science a Social Construction?” Are Science and Technology Westernizing Influences?” How Robust Is Science Under Stress?” How Willing Are Scientists to Reform Their Own Institutions?” and Who Should Control Technology?” The author believes that the Russian example reveals in detail both the strengths and the weaknesses of social constructivism. Though many areas of Russian science show the unmistakable influence of social factors, the deviation of the Soviet Union from standard genetics for many years, followed by its eventual restoration, indicates the weakness of social constructivism and illustrates the relationship of science to reality. He further maintains that although science in Russia has been terribly abused, it nonetheless remains strong; it has proven to be much more resilient than most previous observers believed, and, furthermore, is not nearly as directly dependent on political freedom for its vitality as Western analysts maintained. In the final section, the author makes two strong claims. The first comes from an examination of the social constructivist thesis that science is formed by social influences. His conclusion is that Russian science has indeed been influenced in that country in distinct ways, but not always in a fashion that will please radical social constructivists. The second strong claim is that contrary to the view of many Western scholars that science can flourish only in conditions of nurturing freedom, science turns out to be remarkably robust, able to flourish in adverse conditions. Customer Reviews (2)
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3. Growing plants in artificial light, (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) by Boris Sergeevich Moshkov | |
Paperback: 338
Pages
(1969)
Isbn: 0853500290 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
4. The New Class Divided: Russian Science and Technology Versus Communism by Albert Parry | |
Hardcover: 84
Pages
(1966)
Asin: B0014Y9P1Q Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Pamiatniki nauki i tekhniki v muzeiakh Rossii =: Relics of science and technology in Russian museums (Russian Edition) | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1992)
Isbn: 5070025783 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. English-russian Dictionary of Science & Technology by M. V. Yakimov | |
![]() | Hardcover: 960
Pages
(2004)
-- used & new: US$99.88 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 5944552905 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan |
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7. What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?(Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History by Alexander Vucinich | |
Digital: 3
Pages
(1999-04-01)
list price: US$5.95 -- used & new: US$5.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B00098UP7Q Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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8. Relics of science and technology in Russian museums. Issue 4 by G. Grigorian, L. Kozhina, V. Borisov | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(2005)
Isbn: 502033524X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
9. Elsevier's Dictionary of Science and Technology : English-Russian by Author Unknown, G. Chakalov | |
CD-ROM:
Pages
(1999-01-01)
list price: US$256.00 Isbn: 0444501215 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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10. Giant Isotope Effect in Solids (The Stefan University Press Series on Russian Science and Technology) by Vladimir G. Plekhanov | |
Paperback: 145
Pages
(2004-12)
Isbn: 1889545694 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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11. Ostracods of Mesozoic deposits in the Volga-Ural region, (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) by P. S Liubimova | |
Paperback: 291
Pages
(1967)
Isbn: 0853500037 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. Corrosion and protection of structural alloys; (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) | |
Paperback: 458
Pages
(1968)
Isbn: 0853500142 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
13. Calculation of cutting conditions by means of electronic computers, (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) by Georgii Konstantinovich Goranskii | |
Unknown Binding: 186
Pages
(1967)
Asin: B0006CMPPA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. Prestressed concrete structures: Theory and design, (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) by Viktor Vasilevich Mikhailov | |
Paperback: 822
Pages
(1969)
Isbn: 0853500266 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. Physics of aerodynamic noise; (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) | |
Paperback: 143
Pages
(1969)
Isbn: 0853500231 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Gear pumps: principal parameters and their calculation, (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of a Russian book) by Efrem Markovich Iudin | |
Paperback: 293
Pages
(1967)
Isbn: 0853500045 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. Broaching with alloy tools, ([Boston Spa, Eng] National Lending Library for Science & Technology. Translation of Russian book) by Nikolai Fedorovich Pronkin | |
Paperback: 99
Pages
(1968)
Isbn: 0853500215 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
18. Automatic control systems for machine tools, (National lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian book) by V. A Barun | |
Hardcover: 676
Pages
(1968)
Isbn: 0853500169 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. Economic Effectiveness of Investment Casting in Machine Construction (National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Translation of Russian books) by Ya A Gol'Bin | |
Paperback: 184
Pages
(1967-12)
Isbn: 0853500053 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Welded heterogeneous steel joints, (National Lending Library for Science & Technology. Translations of Russian books) by Viktor Nikolaevich Zemzin | |
Paperback: 287
Pages
(1969)
Isbn: 0853500274 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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