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Nauka, Tekhnika i Obshchestvo Rossii i Germanii vo Vremia Pervoi Mirovoi Voiny

The monograph provides a historical comparative analysis of relations between science, technology and society in Germany and Russia during WWI. Different aspects of the influence of the war on the organization of science, its interaction with military industry, the correlation of fundamental and applied studies, the system of international contacts, norms and values of the scientific community are examined in articles of Russian and German authors. The book covers the activity of new organizations that appeared with the aim of mobilization of science. It gives a thorough review of the transformation of social networks, international scientific contacts and “the war of manifests”. Special attention is drawn to the changes in subject area of natural science studies conditioned by the inclusion of biology, medicine, chemistry, and other sciences in defense studies. The impact of the war on scientists’ ethics, their social status, and value orientations are analyzed here as well. Contents and summary in English.