Science in the New Russia Crisis, Aid, Reform [Paperback]

The Russian science establishment was one of the largest in the world, boasting many Nobel prizes, a world-leading space program, and famous schools in mathematics, physics, and other fields. However, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the major financial supports for the scientific community were eliminated, with resulting brain drain. The subsequent expansion of capitalism and globalization revealed that Russian science was ill adapted to compete with other countries in high technology. Science in the New Russia tells the dramatic story of the near collapse of Russian science in the mid-1990s and of subsequent domestic and international efforts to reform and reenergize scientific activity in Russia.

. . . [this book] supports the authors' unmatched erudition with a wealth of statistical data and thorough research, and produces penetrating analysis and stimulating conclusions. . . . would be of great interest not only to historians and sociologists of science and students of post-Soviet Russia, but also to science policy makers in many countries going through political and economic transition.Vol. 68.4 October 2009This book will be of interest not only to scholars in the area of Russian and Soviet studies, but also to anyone who is involved in policy-making in the sciencesespecially in the Eastern bloc. These readers will find many recommendations on how to modernize the science industry and make it more effective. Vol. 54.2, Summer 2010This book . . . provides an interesting and useful analysis of the development of research activities in Russia.This book will be of great interest not only to scholars in the area of Russian and Soviet studies, but also to anyone who is involved in poicy-making in the sciencesespecially in the Eastern bloc. these readers will find many recommendations on how to modernize the science industry and make it more effective. Vol. 54.2, Summer 2010

Contents
Introduction
List of Acronyms

1. Science at the Enló'