Who were they, how did researchers involved in Stalinism live and work? What did plant seeds sewn into the guts of animals by a geneticist turn into? When did the Kalashnikov machine take on a terrorist flair? Find out from the latest book by Marta and Andrzej Goworski, "Scientists from under the red star"!
The book "Scientists from the Red Star" tells about the icons of socialist science, about its phenomenon, about the still underestimated role of Soviet researchers despite the spectacular and unprecedented achievements confirmed by the Nobel Prizes.
We see human choices, striving for success, faith in higher values and the triumph of knowledge, but also a dirty commitment to politics. Marta and Andrzej Goworski present a dozen or so profiles of scientists doomed to the reality of the USSR :their lives, achievements, failures, ways of dealing with an oppressive system.
The homeland of the proletariat made superhuman efforts and offered them conditions that they would not have anywhere else in Europe. Some, like Andrei Tupolev, were ready to starve and sleep anywhere, just to support the newly established state with their thoughts . Others rebelled and, after a brief affair with the Bolsheviks, set off against the tide of history.
Learn more about the icons of Soviet science from the latest book by Marta Panas-Goworska and Andrzej Goworski, "Scientists from the Red Star" published by PWN!
The specificity of the fate of Soviet scientists was also an element of the grotesque - in their lives tragic moments were mixed with comedy much more clearly and more often than in the world of Western science.
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Marta Panas-Goworska and Andrzej Goworski - a marriage-writer duo. They are interested in the culture and history of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. They are convinced that this part of the world is the most extraordinary and most interesting of all.
In addition, she traces the internationalist relationship between passion and crime, he - follows the paths of medical history. They published, inter alia, in "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Tygodnik Powszechny", "New Eastern Europe". They regularly cooperate with the literary and artistic quarterly Akcent.
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