ABSTRACT
Khrushchev’s successors continued some of his policies towards science and technology, although they abandoned his more radical de-Stalinisation and reorganisation schemes, and adopted a cautious approach more clearly determined by needs of state. In the post-Khrushchev period the press and the speeches of party leaders have contained frank discussions of some of the faults of Soviet science. Post-Khrushchev literature has, however, generally avoided the more controversial topics which occasionally surfaced in fiction of the Khrushchev era: the prevalence of bureaucracy and corruption in the scientific world; the persistence of discrimination against Jews in higher education; the relationship between theoretical and applied science; scientists’ indifference to ideology; and the relationship between scientists and the political authorities. Some works of the post-Khrushchev period emphasise individual talent and independent work in science more than earlier fiction.
