New Atlantis Revisited
Paul R. Josephson
Discover a scientific utopia, Akademgorodok, based on Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." Soviet scientists constructed this community 2,500 miles east of Moscow with the aim of surpassing the West in all fields. In New Atlantis Revisited, Paul Josephson offers a lively history of this city, highlighting its successes and setbacks in scientific research - from nuclear physics to recombinant DNA. Explore the most complete analysis available of the factors that shaped Soviet science during the de-Stalinization era.
Publish Date
1997-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
1997-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.33
ISBN
9780691044545
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2020-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
Imagine the Soviets trying to build a “city of science,” and meeting problem after problem. Yet “Marchuk acknowledged that in a number of fields researchers had contributed to…the speeding up of scientific technological progress. The physicists built synchroton radiation sources with broad applications; the biologists tacked plant and animal husbandry with vigor; the mathematicians, computer specialists, and economists were engaged in modeling and management systems. – source