Background
Joravsky, David was born on September 9, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph and Bertha (Segal) Joravsky.
(This study provides a critical history of Russian psychol...)
This study provides a critical history of Russian psychology. The author analyzes Pavlovian theory of conditioned reflexes, Lenin's and Stalin's theories of political mental development, and the explorations of consciousness by Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Mandelstam in the context of Russia's revolutionary development from the 1860s to the 1960s. He describes state policies from Tsarist relaxation of censorship to the intense revolutionary assertion of thought control and then, starting in the 1950s, the renewed retreat towards the modern norm of intellectual autonomy.
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( The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter...)
The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominated by a fanatical agronomist who achieved dictatorial power over genetics and plant science as well as agronomy. "A standard source both for Soviet specialists and for sociologists of science."—American Journal of Sociology "Joravsky has produced . . . the most detailed and authoritative treatment of Lysenko and his view on genetics."—New York Times Book Review
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( Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosoph...)
Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism. In this volume the author correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution and against this background it is possible to understand why debates over general philosophy gave way to conflicts over specific sciences in the aftermath of the first Five Year Plan and why there was a genuine crisis in Soviet biology.
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Joravsky, David was born on September 9, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph and Bertha (Segal) Joravsky.
Bachelor of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1947; Master of Arts, Columbia, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, certificate, Russian Institute, 1958.
Instructor history, Marietta (Ohio) College, 1953-1954; Instructor history, U. Connecticut, Storrs, 1954-1958; member of faculty, Brown U., Providence, 1958-1965; associate professor, Brown U., 1961-1965; professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1965; department chairman history, Northwestern University, 1980-1983. Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1977-1978, 90-91. Trustee National Council Soviet and East European Research, 1982-1988.
(Authorized facsimile of the author's doctoral dissertatio...)
( The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter...)
(This study provides a critical history of Russian psychol...)
( Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosoph...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member American Association Advancement Slavic Studies (director 1966-1969).
Married Doris Rubin, June 19, 1949. Children: Deborah, Benjamin.