While social research of kibbutz movements has ignored the leadership factor, historians did not use sociological theory to explain phenomena that negated their egalitarian and democratic ethos: leaders' half-century tenure and reverence of dictatorial USSR. This reverence was a survival...

Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgements xi -- Introduction: Soviet Science and Politics through the Prism of Language 1 -- 1 The Cold War in Code Words: The Newspeak of Soviet Science 11 -- Balancing Military and Ideological Priorities for Cold War Science 14 -- Shifting...