The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker

• Main Author: Berglund, Krista (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2012.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Social sciences.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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...

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.