Scientific communication across the Iron Curtain / Christopher D. Hollings
This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War. It details the extent to which mid-twentieth-century researchers and practitioners were able to communicate with their counterparts on the opposite side o...
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| Main Authors: | Hollings, Christopher (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cham ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2016] © 2016 |
| Series: | Springer briefs in history of science and technology
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| Online Access: | Rezension (H-Soz-Kult) Rezension Zentralblatt MATH |
| Table of Contents |
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| 1 Introduction and Overview |
| 2 Personal communications |
| 2.1 Before the First World War |
| 2.2 The 1920s |
| 2.3 The 1930s |
| 2.4 The Second World War |
| 2.5 After the war |
| 2.6 The post-Stalin period |
| 2.7 The experiences of Zhores A. Medvedev |
| 2.8 In the opposite direction |
| 2.9 Concluding remarks on personal communications |
| 3 Physical access to publications |
| 3.1 General comments |
| 3.2 Censorship |
| 3.3 'Local publication' in the USSR |
| 3.4 Abstracts |
| 3.5 Western surveys of Soviet work |
| 4 Linguistic access to publications |
| 4.1 The foreign-language barrier |
| 4.2 Foreign languages in Soviet journals |
| 4.3 Foreign authors in Soviet journals |
| 4.4 Russian-language ability amongst Western scientists |
| 4.5 Translation of scientific works |
| 5 Concluding remarks and points to be pursued. |
