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Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.
Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1 The Mandate of Heaven
- Chapter 2 The European Enlightenment Comes to America
- Chapter 3 The European Enlightenment Comes to Russia
- Chapter 4 Sakharov
- Chapter 5 Resistance to Linkage on the American Right
- Chapter 6 Resistance to Linkage on the American Left
- Chapter 7 The Scientistsâ Boycott
- Chapter 8 Socialism with a Human Face
- Chapter 9 The Aftermath, Part I: Dismantlement and Stewardship
- Chapter 10 The Aftermath, Part II: Unraveling
- Chapter 11 Lessons Not Learned
- Appendix I Letter from 72 Soviet Academicians Attacking Sakharov
- Appendix II Jewish Emigration from U.S.S.R., 1969-1989 201
- Appendix III Text of SOS Petition
- Appendix IV Shcharanskyâs Closing Statement at His Trial
- Back Cover