In Service to Science and Society: Scientists and the Public in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia

@article{Hachten2002InST,
  title={In Service to Science and Society: Scientists and the Public in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia},
  author={Elizabeth Andrews Hachten},
  journal={Osiris},
  year={2002},
  volume={17},
  pages={171 - 209},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144835649}
}
This paper examines the historically unprecedented reciprocal relationship between science and civil society in late Imperial Russia, focusing on the period from 1855 to 1905. It argues that the… 
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