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After the death of Stalin the notion that there could be a peculiarly socialist science lost ground. Under Khrushchev the situation became ambiguous. Whilst international links severed under Stalin began to be slowly reformed, Khrushchev’s personal support for Lysenkoite genetics reimposed a division between Soviet and world science in this field, a situation reminiscent of that which existed in the late 1940s. Since Khrushchev, it has generally been the case that Soviet leaders have accepted the universal nature of the natural sciences.
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Zhores A. Medvedev, Soviet Science (Oxford University Press, 1979) pp. 152–4.
For recent breakdowns of the party membership by occupation see ‘KPSS v tsifrakh’, Partiinaya zhizn’, no. 14 (1981) p. 19. For commentary on the changing character of the party membership see T. H. Rigby, ‘Soviet Communist Party Membership Under Brezhnev’, Soviet Studies, vol. xxvm, no. 3 (July 1976) pp. 317–37,
and A. L. Unger, ‘Soviet Communist Party Membership Under Brezhnev: A Comment’, Soviet Studies, vol. xxix, no. 2 (April 1977) pp. 306–16.
Moshe Lewin, Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates, (London: Pluto Press, 1975) pp. 279–280.
Roy A. Medvedev, On Socialist Democracy (London: Macmillan, 1975) pp. 120–1.
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Kneen, P. (1984). Conclusion: Science and the Centralised State. In: Soviet Scientists and the State. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07332-0_8
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