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Gennady Batygin, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Moscow. Studied philosophy at MGU and completed hiskandidatskaja thesis in 1977, and doctorate (on the history and methodology of sociological research) in 1986. Author of around 100 articles and a book,Obosnovanija naučnogo vyvoda v prikladnoj sociologii (The foundations of Scientific Deduction in Applied Sociology). He is currently working with Inna Devjatko (researcher at the Institute of Sociology) on a ‘social history of science.’ Devjatko has also published independently on the history of social research methods (“Auxiliary theories of measurement in American empirical sociology” inSociologičeskie issledovanija, 1990, 8) and the sociology of literature (“How to gauge a journal's readership” inEx libris, 1990, 1).
Translated from the Russian by Frances Nethercott and E. M. Swiderski
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Batygin, G., Devyatko, I. The soviet philosophical community and power: Some episodes from the late forties. Stud East Eur Thought 46, 223–245 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01074736
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