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Discussion

The presentation is dedicated to the transformation of the Soviet scientific community under the influence of the fundamental processes in the science of the 1920th as they turn from individual enterprise into a large-scale well-organized industry uniting significant human and material resources. The community grew significantly larger, became mere diverse and open. This changed the social makeup of the scientific community and helped develop specific types of internal hierarchy and competition. Rather than focusing on the fates of individual scientists, author explores different scientific groups that formulated collective strategies of adaptation to various historical challenges, mechanisms of competitive survival and hierarchies, revealing hierarchical mechanisms and principles of (self)organization of the scientific community. Most of the data for analyses comes from sociometry and scientometrics of the Soviet scientific community in the 1920s.Acknowledgment: Russian Science Foundation, No. 20-78-10095.