The Early Soviet Reception of Einstein's Theories -- The Scientific Community and the Theory of Relativity -- Early Stalinism and Einstein's Theory -- Stalinism After the War: The Climax of Marxist Attacks -- Turning Points -- Accommodations to Einstein's Theory of Knowledge -- Approaches to the General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology -- Einstein's Humanistic Influence -- Einstein in the Light of Perestroika
Summary
"This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union - the conflict between Einstein's theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index
