Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Stalin, science, and politics after the Second World W ar -- "A Marxist should not write like that": the crisis on the "philos ophical front" -- "The future belongs to Michurin": the agricultural ac ademy session of 1948 -- "We can always shoot them later": physics, pol itics, and the atomic bomb -- "Battles of opinions and open criticism": Stalin intervenes in linguistics -- "Attack the detractors with certai nty of total success": the Pavlov session of 1950 -- "Everyone is waiti ng": Stalin and the economic problems of communism -- Conclusion: scien ce and the fate of the Stalinist system.

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