2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on the USSR Academy of the Sciences during the Second World War
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19500858
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology/History of science and technology
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
ICHIKAWA Hiroshi Hiroshima University, 大学院・総合科学研究科, 教授 (00212994)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 科学技術史 |
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| Research Abstract |
Many advanced research institutes being affiliated with, the USSR Academy of the Sciences was a unique organization mostly influential in the entire development of scientific activities in the whole country. As the German troops rushed into the Soviet territory, the institutes of the Academy were evacuated to Kazan and other cities in an unparalleled scale in the history. Shedding a new light on the evacuation processes and the wartime research carried out by the institutes in natural and engineering sciences, this study clarifies the enlargement of the organizational scales of the Academy in general and the rise of authority of the scientists in the Soviet society, at the same time, the huge variety as for the impacts of the evacuation ; the research circumstances and the living conditions among the institutes.
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Research Products
(6 results)
