From Sovietization to Global Soviet Engagement?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Sovietization to Global Soviet Engagement?

Original language description

This chapter gives a brief description of how Soviet science opened up to international cooperation: from the Sovietization of its allies to global involvement directed by Moscow based on a strictly defined script and with support from the entire Eastern Bloc. It seems that the International Biological Programme was the first organization to truly synthesize the demands placed on science diplomacy from both sides of the Iron Curtain. After a period of hard-line Sovietization and after the international isolation of Eastern Europe, the International Geophysical Year became the first breakthrough in existing policy. The IGY taught the Soviets and the Eastern Bloc about the opportunities for and potential of international cooperation. Based on the success of the IGY, the Soviets and the other countries of the Eastern Bloc built a name for themselves, which in the atmosphere of Khrushchev’s thaw, they were able to take advantage of. However, this did not result in greater, more open and democratic cooperation in individual scientific communities. It did just the opposite: elite Stalinist scientists gained important positions in international organizations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980

ISBN

978-0-8229-4527-7

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

99-113

Number of pages of the book

314

Publisher name

University of Pittsburgh Press

Place of publication

Pittsburgh

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