The beginnings of the Soviet encyclopedia. The utopia and misery of mathematics in the political turmoil of the 1920s

Centaurus 60 (1-2):25-51 (2018)
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In this paper, we focus on the launch of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, which was first published in 1925. We present the context of the launch and explain why it was closely connected to the period of the New Economic Policy. In the last section, we examine four articles about randomness and probability included in the first volumes of the encyclopedia in order to illustrate some debates from within the scientific scene in the USSR during the 1920s.

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10.1111/1600-0498.12174

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