Montag, 13. November 2023, 17:00 Uhr
Seminarraum 1
At its height in the late 1980s, the Soviet science system was the largest national infrastructure of science and technology in the world. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, all fifteen successor states not only had to contract their science systems — a process common to all the post-socialist states — but they also had to create national boundaries between enterprises and communities that had once been shared. This presentation traces the course of the fragmentation of Soviet science in the two states that inherited the bulk of the science complex, Russia and Ukraine, from the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chornobyl to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with particular emphasis on the space program, nuclear weapons, and the relationship of each state to the internationalized scientific community.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elias Moncef Bounatirou
Universitätsprofessor für ostslawische Sprachwissenschaft
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan-Michael Newerkla
Leiter des Instituts für Slawistik
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Müller
Dekan der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien
