title: Who is Who in an Academic Research Institute: The Image of a Scientific Institution in the Last Decades of Soviet Power (1963–1991)
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metadata.value: Lapteva, T. N.
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metadata.value: 2022-06-29T21:27:12Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06-29T21:27:12Z
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metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Lapteva T. N. ‘Who is Who in an Academic Research Institute: The Image of a Scientific Institution in the Last Decades of Soviet Power (1963–1991)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, pp. 994–1006.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.410
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37011
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metadata.value: The article aims to provide an account of an academic scientific institute as an independent functioning
  unit of the Soviet scientific system from the first half of the 1960s until the end of the Soviet era. This was a time
  of gradual decline of scientific achievements of the USSR after resounding successes in the 1950s. During these
  years, the growth rate of the number of scientists sharply decreased, and the understanding of their role in the institutions
  of the USSR Academy of Sciences changed. Using a wide range of archival documents, some used for
  the first time, the functions of each category of research institute employees, their qualifications, boundaries of
  authority, and ways to strengthen their position are described as factors that affect the effectiveness of research
  activities of the institute. Estimates of contemporaries — members of the academic community, given to certain
  social groups of research institute collectives — are provided. The academic research institute created favorable
  conditions for free scientific work by organizing a system of positions. Researchers could use the assistance of
  highly qualified support staff, were spared from mechanical labor and responsibility for technical processes, and
  had to deal only with science. The formal status of researchers at the Academy during the 1960s — 1980s steadily
  strengthened until the end of the Soviet era, in which they had the right to influence the election of the director
  of the institute at the general meeting of the collective, which has also contributed to democratization in the late
  1980s. The inability to intervene in individual research processes made it difficult to get rid of vain employees and
  thus reduced the effectiveness of Soviet scientific institutions.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: science
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scientists
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: research team
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Research Institute
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Academy of Sciences
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.value: Who is Who in an Academic Research Institute: The Image of a Scientific Institution in the Last Decades of Soviet Power (1963–1991)
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