Copyright

Nikolai Krementsov

Published On

2018-09-24

Page Range

pp. 461-494

Language

  • English

Print Length

33 pages

Apologia: The Historian’s Craft

Chapter of: With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia (pp. 461–494)

This addresses numerous challenges the author faced in researching and writing this book and focuses on two major components of the historian’s craft: finding necessary sources and translating the past, both literally and figuratively, for the present-day reader.

Contributors

Nikolai Krementsov

(author)
Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University of Toronto
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8839-5948
https://ihpst.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/nikolai-krementsov

Nikolai Krementsov is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (Canada). He has published several monographs and numerous articles on various facets of the history of science, medicine, and literature in Russia and the Soviet Union. His latest publications include A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science (2011), Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in the Bolshevik Science and Fiction (2014), and The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon (2017), 2 vols. (co-edited with William deJong-Lambert).