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Purges in comparative perspective: Rules for exclusion and inclusion in the scientific community under political pressure.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20503757     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialist Germany, the Max Planck Society in occupied Germany after 1945, the USSR Academy of Sciences throughout the Stalin era, and the National Academy of Sciences in early cold war America. In all these cases, while academic elites largely accepted the required radical changes in the rules for membership in the scientific community, they also sought to manipulate the process to their own institutional advantage.
Authors:
Richard Beyler; Alexei Kojevnikov; Jessica Wang
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Comparative Study; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Osiris     Volume:  20     ISSN:  0369-7827     ISO Abbreviation:  Osiris     Publication Date:  2005  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-05-27     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0057764     Medline TA:  Osiris     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  23-48     Citation Subset:  QIS    
Affiliation:
History Department, Portland State University. P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, USA. beylerr@pdx.edu
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