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New Trends in Soviet Social Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2019
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The situation of scientific and scholarly thought in the Soviet Union is perhaps most clearly illuminated by a comparison of the status of the natural and applied sciences (technology, medicine, agricultural sciences) with that of the social and human sciences. It is true, the ideology of the state requires certain beliefs to be professed also with regard to the reality of nature, and readers of the official Soviet journal of doctrine, Problems of Philosophy, would, for instance, learn that important developments in modern science like Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, or cybernetics, or symbolic logic are being condemned as contrary to materialism. However, if readers were to conclude that Soviet science and technology are at present in fact operating without the benefit of these concepts and tools, they would be utterly mistaken.
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