Alexander Vucinich Einstein, Soviet Ideology sku-681207520

Alexander Vucinich's Einstein and Soviet Ideology is a hardcover listed under Collectible Comics N.E., SKU sku-681207520. It traces Soviet responses to Einstein's theory of relativity and its conflict with dialectical materialism. Before the Stalin era, Marxist philosophers disagreed about relativity, while Soviet physicists published work supporting it.

During the Stalin era (1929-1953), the state enforced ideological unity, harassed physicists accused of idealism and imprisoned several proponents of Einstein's ideas; some physicists continued to defend relativity. In the post-Stalinist period (1953-1985), thinkers sought to reconcile Marxist philosophy with relativity and wrote appreciatively about Einstein's humanistic thought.

Perestroika (1985-1991) further reduced the ideological constraints on relativity.