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Vladimir Vernadsky was a leading Russian scientist and an active politician until at least 1918. One can argue that his views on politics and science were consistent with each other, constituting an integral approach to life. These beliefs, which led him to become a founding member of the trongest non-revolutionary opposition movement in prerevolutionary Russia, continued to determine Vernadsky’s behavior after October 1917.
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A comprehensive biography of Vernadsky is available in the West: Kendall E. Bailes, Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions. V.l. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863–1945 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990).
In the summer of 1921, the Cheka arrested about 200 people, accusing them of being members of the Petrograd Fighting Organization, headed by Professor Vladimir Tagantsev. See V.I. Vernadsky, ‘Iz dnevnikov 1921 g.’, N.G. Okhotin and A.B. Roginsky (ed.), Zvenya. Istoricheskii al’manakh, vol. 1. (Moscow: Progress, Feniks, Atheneum, 1991) pp. 475–87.
Bailes, op. cit., p. 166–8. On Vavilov, see. for instance, a publication of his documents, N.I. Vavilov, Zhizn’ korotka, nado speshit’ (Moscow: ’sovetskaya Rossiya’ Publishing House, 1990).
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Tolz, V. (1997). Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky: Within-System Reformer. In: Russian Academicians and the Revolution. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25840-6_8
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