A city of science where researchers could live and work unfettered by
politics, public expectation and worries over funding would be inconceivable in
any country other than the old Soviet Union. Akademgorodok, built in a Siberian
forest in the 1960s, was meant to be a utopia for scientists that would help the
USSR outdo the West. New Atlantis Revisited by Paul Josephson charts the history
of that dream. The layout is impenetrable, but the story remarkable. Published
by Princeton University Press, £27.50/$39.50, ISBN 0691044546.
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