Science at the Crossroads
Science at the Crossroads was an anthology of the contributions of the delegation from the
Alfred Rupert Hall wrote a scathing review, claiming that it had little impact in the Soviet Union and that most of the contributors careers led, rather, to the prison camp and the execution squad.[1]
Contents
The 1971 edition included:
| Author | Institution | Title | Summary | Fate of author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Needham | Caius College, Cambridge
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New Foreword | Died at the age of 94 at his Cambridge home | |
| P. G. Werskey | Lecturer, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh | On the Reception of Science At The Cross Roads in England | Retired academic | |
| Foreword | Heralds Dialectical Materialism as a new culture providing a single method with ever increasing penetration into all scientific disciplines
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| Nikolai Bukharin | Member of the Academy of Sciences, Director of the Industrial Research Department of the Supreme Economic Council , President of the Commission of the Academy of Sciences for the History of Knowledge.
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"Theory and Practice From The Standpoint of Dialectical Materialism" | Arrested on 27 February 1937, tried at the Trial of the 21 and shot on 15 March 1938, age 49 | |
| Abram Ioffe | Member of the Academy of Sciences, Director of the Physico-Technical Institute, Leningrad, later renamed the Ioffe Institute | "Physics and Technology" | In 1950 sacked during Hero of Socialist Labor in 1955. Died 1960 shortly before his 80 birthday
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| Modest Rubinstein | Professor at the Institute of Economics, Moscow; Member of the Presidium of the Communist Academy, Moscow; Member of the Presidium of the
State Planning Commission (Gosplan). |
"Relations of Science, Technology, and Economics Under Capitalism, and in the Soviet Union" | Had a long and successful career as a Soviet academic. Member of the Soviet Pugwash Committee who participated in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Died in 1969 aged 74 | |
| Boris Zavadovsky | Director of the Institute of Neuro-Humoral Physiology, Director of Timiryazev Biological Museum | The "Physical" and "Biological" in the Process of Organic Evolution" | Criticised by the supporters of Lysenko, but remained unscathed. Died in 1951, aged 56 | |
| Ernst Kolman | "Dynamic and Statistical Regularity in Physics and Biology" | President of the Association of the Scientific Institute of Natural Science, Professor of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow; Member of the Presidium of the State Scientific Council. | Already had the role of ideological watchdog in scientific community, before 1931. Involved in framing political asylum in Sweden. In 1978e published The adventure of cybernetics in the Soviet Union , where he admitted his crimes, shortly before dying in 1979, age 86
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References
- JSTOR 686284.