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The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

This is the first comprehensive study about the non-mathematical writings and activities of the Russian algebraic geometer and number theorist Igor Shafarevich (b. 1923). In the 1970s Shafarevich was a prominent member of the dissidents’ human rights movement and a noted author of clandestine anti-communist literature in the Soviet Union. Shafarevich’s public image suffered a terrible blow around 1989 when he was decried as a dangerous ideologue of anti-Semitism due to his newly-surfaced old manuscript Russophobia. The scandal culminated when the President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States suggested that Shafarevich, an honorary member, resign. The present study establishes that the allegations about anti-Semitism in Shafarevich’s texts were unfounded and that Shafarevich’s terrible reputation was cemented on a false basis.

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The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

This is the first comprehensive study about the non-mathematical writings and activities of the Russian algebraic geometer and number theorist Igor Shafarevich (b. 1923). In the 1970s Shafarevich was a prominent member of the dissidents’ human rights movement and a noted author of clandestine anti-communist literature in the Soviet Union. Shafarevich’s public image suffered a terrible blow around 1989 when he was decried as a dangerous ideologue of anti-Semitism due to his newly-surfaced old manuscript Russophobia. The scandal culminated when the President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States suggested that Shafarevich, an honorary member, resign. The present study establishes that the allegations about anti-Semitism in Shafarevich’s texts were unfounded and that Shafarevich’s terrible reputation was cemented on a false basis.

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The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

by Krista Berglund
The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

by Krista Berglund

Overview

This is the first comprehensive study about the non-mathematical writings and activities of the Russian algebraic geometer and number theorist Igor Shafarevich (b. 1923). In the 1970s Shafarevich was a prominent member of the dissidents’ human rights movement and a noted author of clandestine anti-communist literature in the Soviet Union. Shafarevich’s public image suffered a terrible blow around 1989 when he was decried as a dangerous ideologue of anti-Semitism due to his newly-surfaced old manuscript Russophobia. The scandal culminated when the President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States suggested that Shafarevich, an honorary member, resign. The present study establishes that the allegations about anti-Semitism in Shafarevich’s texts were unfounded and that Shafarevich’s terrible reputation was cemented on a false basis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783034807487
Publisher: Springer Basel
Publication date: 04/13/2014
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 542
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

1 Igor Shafarevich, a lightning rod for controversy.- 2 Shafarevich’s early years in the young Soviet state.- 3 Shafarevich, the human rights activist.- 4 The first disputes about the Soviet – and Russian – future.- 5 From under the rubble, Shafarevich’s and Solzhenitsyn’s joint project.- 6 Shafarevich’s addresses until the early 1980s.- 7 Shafarevich’s first statements during the era of glasnost.- 8 Russophobia.- 9 The rapid political changes of the late 1980s early 1990s.- 10 Critique of techno-scientific civilisation .- 11 Some conclusions.- Sources and literature.- Index of personal names.

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