TITLE:
Russian Science Prior to the Russian Revolution
AUTHORS:
Agamenon R. E. Oliveira
KEYWORDS:
History of Russian Science, History of Russian Revolution, Great Figures of Science, History of Russian Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.7 No.3,
August
10,
2018
ABSTRACT: This paper is an attempt to present and discuss the
scientific context prior to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Some general aspects of the scientific milieus
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are described, including the period
of Peter the Great, the foundation of the Academy of Science, and the influence
of great figures of science, both Russian and foreign. In the eighteenth century, Euler (1707-1783) and Lomonosov (1711-1765) were chosen as symbolic and representative figures, while in the nineteenth
century, Lobachevski (1792-1856), Chebyshev
(1821-1894), Mendeleev (1834-1907), and Pavlov (1849-1936) were looked.