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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by varjag on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:11AM (#22944009)
Oh not this again.

The USSR coasted its first half of existence milking Tsarist legacy of science and engineering, then the other half copying the intellectual fruits of supposedly dumb Western jocks.

Modern Russia isn't even half of that.

Precious little to show for all the cheek puffing and talent grooming.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by Koshkin on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:06PM (#22947052)
> milking Tsarist legacy

I call it "preserving tradition."

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by varjag on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:00PM (#22947668)
Pre-1943 USSR was very much into violently rejecting anything Tsarist. Ioffe, Kapitsa and others survived only as pragmatic accessories to weapons and industrialization programmes.

Post-Stalin they had an opportunity to develop their schools of science but it's only so much a few, even dedicated, individuals can do. By 1990 these efforts largely fizzed out.

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