Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses t[...]

This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.[...]

Identifies the problems resulting from the technological overhaul of recent years, paying close attention to the detrimental effects that people have on nature.[...]