What Have We Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?At the time the Soviet Union broke apart in the late 1980s, it possessed the largest scientific community in the world. The rapid development, in just a few decades, of such an immense scientific establishmentin a social and economic environment strikingly different from the Westpresents an unusual opportunity for the worlds leading authority on Soviet science to examine how the Russian experience sheds light on the status and character of science and