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)
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em:Cham ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2016]
© 2016
Colecção:Springer briefs in history of science and technology
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Acesso em linha:Rezension (H-Soz-Kult)
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Sumário
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.