Simon Ings

Stalin and the Scientists

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    In Europe, by about the middle of the nineteenth century, it did seem possible that religion, philosophy, psychology, science and politics might achieve some sort of mutual understanding.
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    Physiologists attacked psychologists. Laboratory pathologists denounced clinicians.
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    Several scientists of world importance spent their careers in ‘research prisons’.
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    Around 18 million people passed through the gulag system
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    created a vast system of labour camps managed by a government agency known by its acronym: Gulag
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    guaranteeing them virtually unlimited funds. For others it was a disaster.
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    five-year economic plans
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    chief operatives in the Caucasus.
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    marginalised and ultimately destroyed by a man who had barely figured in the 1917 revolution
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    led them from trauma wards to orphanages, and from the invention of the lie detector to expeditions in remotest Uzbekistan.
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