MixedThe Wall Street JournalStalin and the Scientists is a good single source for anyone approaching Soviet science for the first time. It suffers from a number of flaws, however. Mr. Ings writes about what interests him most, such as biology, psychology and physiology. He gives no attention to mathematics and very little to theoretical physics, the fields in which the Soviet Union was the strongest ... Stalin and the Scientists deserves attention, but a very critical form of attention. It is based on an impressive amount of study, and most readers will learn a great deal. It is, however, incomplete and overdrawn.
