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The Soviet low-temperature physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov lived from 1901 to 1937. The year of his death, 1937, already indicates that he was a victim of the infamous Stalinist purges of the late 1930s.
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Most philosophers of any significance that had survived the revolution and civil war had been sent packing by Lenin in the early twenties (see L. Chamberlain, Lenin’s Private War: the Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (St Martin Press, New York, 2006)) and those that were left were definitely of a lesser calibre and faithful followers of the party line.
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Ju.V. Pavlenko, Ju.N. Ranjuk and Ju.A. Khramov, “Delo” UFTI 1935–1938 (The “UFTI” Case 1935–1938) (Feniks, Kiev, 1998), also to be referred to as Ju.V. Pavlenko et al. (1998).
K. Mendelssohn, The Quest for Absolute Zero (New York, 1966).
Simon Ings, Stalin and the Scientists–A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953 (Faber&Faber, London, 2016).
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Reinders, L.J. (2018). Introduction. In: The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72098-2_1
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