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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, rapid inflation and decline in governmental revenues caused the scientific establishment to lose much of its funding and stability for the first time since the 1920s. Salaries were not paid for months, and research monies disappeared. International
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graduated every year. Soviet scientists won acclaim in several fields, marked by a highly developed pure science and innovation at the theoretical level, though interpretation and application fell short. They were at the cutting edge of science in fields such as
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in the early 1990s, both science and technology were intimately linked to the ideology and practical functioning of the Soviet state and were pursued along paths both similar and distinct from models in other countries. Many great scientists who worked in
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The Soviet government made the development and advancement of science a national priority, emphasizing science at all levels of education and showering top scientists with honours. Very large numbers of
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Already in 1920s, certain fields of scientific research were labeled "bourgeois" and "idealist" by the Communist Party. All research, including natural sciences, was to be founded on the philosophy of
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Unlike some Western countries, most of the research work in the USSR was conducted not at universities, but at specially set up research institutes. The more prestigious of them were parts of the
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was also marginalised during the Stalinist period and received a hostile public campaign in 1951. Although, the discipline was rehabilitated during the post-Stalinist period from 1954 until 1959.
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organizations offered aid programs to discourage emigration. In general, however, the Russian scientific community has been slow to recover from the political and economic shocks of the 1990s.
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and engineers, relative to the world population, than any other major country due to the strong levels of state support for scientific developments by the 1980s.
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in 1934. It consisted of 250 research institutes and 60,500 full-time researchers in 1987, a large percentage in the
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Although the sciences were less rigorously censored than other fields such as art, there were several examples of
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The most prestigious government prize awarded for achievements in science and technology was originally the
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and several other related fields of biological research; however, this decision was reversed in the 1960s.
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convinced policy makers to set aside sufficient resources for research. Due to a crash program directed by
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Soviet technology was most highly developed in the fields of nuclear physics, where the arms race with the
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to varied reactions (1934–1954) and, more significantly, to combustion processes. He proposed a
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had their own republican academies of science, while the Urals, Siberian, and Far Eastern
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was also highly developed: in October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial
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What Have We Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience
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Encyclopedia of Russian history Volume: Volume 4, 2004, by James R. Millar
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and psychotechnics were already banned in 1936 by a special decree of the
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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
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Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society
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of the academy coordinated fundamental science in Eastern Russia.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union
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including an exhaustive analysis of the application of the
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Agricultural research was organized under the aegis of the
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Science and Politics in the U.S.S.R.: The Genetics Debate
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union. A Short History
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Science and Technology in Russia and the Soviet Union
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The following Soviet scientists were recipients of a
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in 1953, a mere ten months after the United States.
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