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Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions: V. I. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945

Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions: V. I. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945

Bailes, Kendall E.

Hardcover

Series: Indiana-Michigan Russian and East European Studies

Sports GeneralRussian History

ISBN10: 0253311233
ISBN13: 9780253311238
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jan 22 1990
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

. . . scholarship of the highest order. . . . Kendall Bailes's book is destined to become a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of Russian and Soviet culture. It is insightful and eloquent. --Douglas R. Weiner

. . . an insightful, richly researched portrait of Vernadsky's life and times . . . --American Scientist

This biography . . . not only tells a story full of human drama but also one rich with insights into Russia's higher-education and scientific-research establishments. --Washington Post Book World

[This] concise book, with references that stop short of the Gorbachev era, will be the foundation for all future scholarship in English on Vernadsky. --Nature

In this insightful exploration of Vernadsky's legacy, Kendall Bailes unveils a creative scholar-activist whose life and work speak more clearly about his time than our own. --Science

The Bailes book . . . is fascinating . . . Read it! --World Affairs Report

Kendall Bailes has left us with a vivid portrayal of the life and times of Vladimir Vernadsky. --The Russian Review

It offers a penetrating analysis of social realities in twentieth-century Russia, which helped create an intellectual culture dominated by ideological extremes. --American Historical Review

This first full-length English-language biography of Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), one of the leading Russian intellectual figures of the twentieth century, focuses on the interaction between science and politics during Russia's revolutionary age.

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