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Book Reviews / Canadian – American Slavic Studies 45 (2011) 235–257 237 Intelligentsia Science: Th e Russian Century, 1860-1960 . Edited by Michael D. Gordin, Karl Hall, and Alexei Kojevnikov. Osiris , Second Series, vol. 23. Chicago: Th e University of Chicago Press, 2008. 294 pp. Composed of an introduction and ten essays, this anthology was the result of a conference on Russian and Soviet science held in 2004. Th e most general essay, by Alexei Kojevnikov, provides an overview of “the phenomenon of Soviet science,” with a caution to readers that, despite its peculiarities, Soviet science was an inseparable part of international science, infl uenced by and infl uencing the latter. However, it does not substantially go beyond Loren Graham and Alexander Vucinich, nor does it fi t with the volume’s stated focus on “intelligentsia science.” Th e essay’s normalizing bent sits uncomfortably with Nils Roll-Hansen’s recapitulation of the Lysenko epi- sode, which makes all the familiar points exoticizing Soviet science. His belief in the existence of stable truths and objectivity and his disdain for a criterion of truth based on practice and for the idea that all science is socially constructed seem oddly quaint to this
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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