Science and Ideology: The Case of Cosmology in the Soviet Union, 1947–1963

Ideological considerations have always influenced science, butrarely as directly and massively as in the Soviet Union during the early Cold War period, when cosmology was among the sciences that became politicized. This field of science developed very differently in the Communist countries than in t...

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Main Author: Kragh, Helge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Estonian Association of the History and Philosophy of Science 2013-03-01
Series:Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.11590/abhps.2013.1.02