附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Russian science, public culture, and the Bolsheviks -- The birth of popular publishing and public science in Tsarist Russia -- Scientific societies and the public sphere in late imperial Russia -- Patronizing science : Glavnauka and scientific societies, 1917-27 -- Forging the new world : scientific print culture and the Russian reader in the 1920s -- Imagining science : land, air, and space for the new Soviet citizen of the 1920s -- Transforming the spirit with science : evolution, antireligion, and the Soviet state in the 1920s -- Technology solves everything : science popularization and the Stalinist great break, 1928-32 -- Cultural conveyor belts : public science on the retreat, 1928-32 -- Technology for the masses : technical societies, Stalinist culture, and Soviet labor, 1928-34 -- Conclusion: the shop floor as the temple of science.
摘要:"After the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia's new leaders recognized the tantamount importance of teaching science to the masses in order to spread enlightenment and to reinforce the basic tenets of Marxism. However, it was not until the first Five Year Plan and the cultural revolution of 1928-32 that a radical break from Russia's tsarist past was marked. Sadly, after Stalin seized power, enlightenment and science were overwhelmed by ideology and technology as scientists were reduced to serving industry and the propagandistic ends of Stalinism , "In Science for the Masses, James T. Andrews presents a comprehensive history of the early Bolshevik popularization of science in Russia and the former Soviet Union."--Jacket
