Admiration for the scientific community. Reflection of the social history of Soviet science in literature and art

This publication is devoted to how the topic of science and scientists was reflected in the public culture of Russia/USSR in the twentieth century. Based on the material of artistic prose, poetry, dramaturgy, cinema and journalism of the twentieth century, it is traced as the image of science and scientists changed in the mass consciousness, what problems of the development of science in different decades of the twentieth century were the most important in the eyes of the academic community itself, the broad circles of the intelligentsia and the state, and As in literature and cinema, a social order presented by science was reflected, formed by both the state and society as a whole.
The author traces as the image of science and a scientist evolved in Russian culture from Chekhov’s stories to the prose of Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Late adaptations of the works of Vladimir Dudintsev.
The book is designed for a wide range of readers