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-c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Springer Basel
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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