Soviet science in the end of 20th century: historical lessons of resistance and susceptibility of scientists to the influence of external social and cultural factor

Authors

  • Viktor Sergeevich Balakin Author

Abstract

The problem of political and state management of science in the USSR is analyzed.
The susceptibility and resistance of science to the influence of an external
social and cultural factor are discovered. The cultural and historical approach
that enables to consider the unity and inconsistency of the effect of an external
socio-cultural and cognitive evolution factor of scientific knowledge is used. The
point about strong susceptibility of science to the influence of the external social
and cultural factor, almost complete subordination of scientific work to the political
and state dictate is established. As a rule, scientists with independent psychological
set of mind who considered science as a supreme value of life resisted to
administrative influence.

Author Biography

  • Viktor Sergeevich Balakin

    head of the History Department, Doctor of Historical
    Sciences, Professor, South Ural State University, Scientific Adviser of master’s degree
    and postgraduate students. Research interests: social history, history of science and education,
    cultural history, theory and methodology of history

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Historical Sciences