This analysis of Russian science shows how the Russian science establishment was one of the largest in the world boasting a world-leading space programme and No

By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed

"Will certainly become one of the standard works on the history of modern scientific institutions."--Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics

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Moscow is the center of science and higher education of Russia and is also an international hub of science. There have been milestone achievements of science in