INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS: THE CASE OF by Nikolai Krementsov

By Nikolai Krementsov

What's foreign technological know-how and the way does it functionality? This e-book solutions those questions via an in depth research of overseas congresses on genetics held from 1899 to 1939. It provides a portrait of foreign technological know-how as a made of non-stop interactions that concerned scientists and their consumers inside of particular political, ideological, and disciplinary contexts. Drawing on quite a few archival assets - starting from Stalin's own papers to the files of the Gestapo and from the correspondence between scientists in several international locations to the mins of the Soviet government's top-secret conferences - it depicts the operations of overseas technological know-how at a time of serious political tensions.
Krementsov breaks with the view of technology as both inherently nationwide or quintessentially foreign, interpreting as an alternative the intersection among nationwide and foreign agendas in scientists' actions. targeting the dramatic historical past of the 7th overseas genetics congress, he investigates contradictions inherent to scientists' twin loyalties to their state and their technology. via research of negotiations between 3 teams of actors concerned with the association of the congress, Krementsov examines the position of ideologies, patronage, and private networks within the operations of foreign technology.

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One of these young trainees was Anton Zhebrak, a recent graduate of the Timiriazev Agricultural Academy in Moscow. In 1930, on Kol’tsov’s recommendation, Zhebrak was Plate 4 The First All-Russian conference on genetics, Leningrad, 1929. E. Baur is delivering report, behind him G. A. Levitskii (sitting). At the table: Iu. A. Filipchenko, N. I. Vavilov, Richard Goldschmidt, G. D. Karpechenko, unidentified, unidentified, V. E. Pisarev. (From Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Nauchnoe Nasledie v Pis’makh, Moscow: Nauka, 1997, vol.

However, the institutionalization and development of eugenics as a research field in Russia occurred largely after the Bolshevik revolution and in close conjunction with genetics. After the Bolshevik revolution these three fields—plant and animal breeding, experimental biology, and eugenics—provided launching pads for the institutionalization of genetics. 54 With the nationalization of all private enterprise in 1917, the state became the sole patron for science in Russia. The premium the state set on science and scientific education also made it an eager patron.

From Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Nauchnoe Nasledie v Pis’makh, Moscow: Nauka, 1997, vol. ) Genetics as an international science 33 accepted as a graduate student in the genetics department of Columbia University chaired by Morgan’s successor Leslie C. 112 Foreign travels of Soviet geneticists were reciprocated by visits of foreign geneticists to the Soviet Union. After the Berlin congress, Leslie C. 113 Several foreign geneticists, including Erwin Baur, Richard Goldschmidt, and Harry Federley, attended the First AllRussia conference on genetics and breeding held in Leningrad in January 1929.

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