Nikolai Krementsov

Nikolai Krementsov is a professor at the University of Toronto, under the department of the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology. In the course of his career, Krementsov has published half a dozen books and several dozen articles on subjects ranging from oncology to genetics and from entomology to eugenics. In all of his works, he has struggled against the profound alienation, and the nearly total lack of contact/interchange/dialogue, between the history/historians of Russia and the history/historians of Russian science. Testing various approaches, sources, modes of analysis, as well as styles of writing, he has sought to bring science back to its rightful place in the mainstream of twentieth-century Russian history. He believes that one cannot fully understand this tortuous history without acknowledging a central role science came to play in post-revolutionary Russian culture and society.

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