Maria Rogacheva’s Soviet Scientists Remember gives voice to one of the most prominent and educated groups in the late USSR: scientists. Lifting the veil of secrecy that covered scientists during the Cold War, this book brings together six first-person accounts of residents of the formerly closed scientific town of Chernogolovka. In their interviews, scientists talk about growing up in Stalin’s Russia and surviving the Great Patriotic War, their decision to join the scientific intelligentsia, and the outstanding opportunities that were available to them in the heyday of the Cold War. They reflect on their daily lives in a privileged scientific community and their relationship with the Soviet state and the Communist Party. Soviet Scientists Remember sheds light on how ordinary people experienced the transformation of Soviet society after Stalin’s death, as well as its tumultuous transition to the post-Soviet era in the 1990s.
Maria A. Rogacheva is at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.
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Chapter: 1 “My life, my family’s life is the typical story of millions of Soviet families”
Rimma Nikolaevna Liubovskaia (née Stepanova)
Chapter: 2 “I was only ten years old when my father was arrested”
Vladimir Karlovich Enman
Chapter: 3 “After winning such a devastating war we believed that we could do anything”
Georgii Borisovich Manelis
Chapter: 4 “I have always embraced collectivism and had little tolerance for individualism”
Lev Nikolaevich Vashin
Chapter: 5 “I began to critically evaluate Soviet life after I met Kronid” ׀
Rustem Bronislavovich Liubovskii
Chapter: 6 “Individuals, not the party or society, should be responsible for their own education”
Oleg Nikolaevich Efimov
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