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ALEXANDER VUCINICH

Einstein and Soviet Ideology

Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

 Contents

Introduction 1

1 The Early Soviet Reception of Einstein's Theories 13

2 The Scientific Community and the Theory of Relativity 36
3 Early Stalinism and Einstein's Theory 56
4 Stalinism After the War: The Climax of Marxist Attacks 89
5 Turning Points 120
6 Accommodations to Einstein's Theory of Knowledge 142
7 Approaches to the General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology 157
8 Einstein's Humanistic Influence 178
9 Einstein in the Light of Perestroika 192

Conclusion 219

Notes 231
Glossary 255
References Cited 257
Index 285