Alexey Golubev1; 1 University of Houston, United States
Discussion
Following World War II and increasingly into the late Soviet period, the political establishment of the Soviet Union had increasingly relied on epistemic governance - a form of modern governance based on the communication of scientific, medical, historical, and other advanced forms of knowledge. To make sure that knowledge communication would reach the broadest possible audience, the Soviet leadership had to create an impressive, predominantly urban, infrastructure of government agencies and public organizations responsible for the “propaganda of knowledge.” The proposed paper will examine this process that resulted in a massive infrastructure of the public communication of knowledge in the late USSR.
