ABSTRACT
Soviet attitudes toward Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen School of physics can be divided into two phases which the author calls "The Early Dogmatic Phase" and "The Continuing Philosophical Critique". By categorizing Soviet reactions to Bohr in this rather schematic way he, of course, somewhat simplifies the historical record. In a book entitled Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union the author have described these events in detail, and he does not wish to repeat them here. Before doing so, however, he likes to summarize the criticisms advanced against quantum mechanics in the heyday of Stalinism, and indicate briefly the successful responses to these criticisms that Soviet physicists and the more enlightened Soviet philosophers developed. It is quite reasonable to think that Bohr's greater attention in the last part of his life to traditional philosophical concepts like objective reality and causality could have occurred without the particular stimulus of Fock's criticism of his views.
