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Dialectical Materialism in the 1980s Radiobiology's War of Words Exchanges, Acronyms And More PHILOSOPHY, AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOVIET UNION Loren R. Graham. Columbia University Press, New York, 1987. 565 pp. $45. BY LINDA L. LUBRANO In 1970 Loren R. Graham completed an outstanding work entitled Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union. Nominated for the National Book Award, it was the first book to explore the close interrelationship between dialectical materialism and the i

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PHILOSOPHY, AND
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
IN THE SOVIET
UNION

Loren R. Graham. Columbia University Press,
New York, 1987. 565 pp. $45.

BY LINDA L. LUBRANO

In 1970 Loren R. Graham completed an outstanding work entitled Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union. Nominated for the National Book Award, it was the first book to explore the close interrelationship between dialectical materialism and the intellectual development of specific fields of scientific research in the Soviet Union. In the new volume, Graham expands and updates the earlier work considerably, providing the same lucid, provocative presentation of a complex and controversial theme.

The major premise is that many Soviet scientists subscribe to dialectical materialism as a viable and serious philosophical frame work. Graham argues that scientists such as V.A. Fock and A.T. Oparin were truly committed to dialectical materialism and ...

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