In the history of USSR, 1950s are a period rarely comprehended by historians as whole. Instead, they interpreted time transition from high Stalinism culture to thaw era. Meanwhile, at this time, economic and military-technical basis Soviet legacy was laid, which became Russian economy. The sociocultural factor that determined specifics is what Margaret Mead defined prefigurative — state society...

So much attention is focused on the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa that there is a tendency to overlook the grievous burden of disease from which the peoples of that Continent have suffered for centuries. This paper, based on letters sent in 1953/54 by a young doctor in Sierra Leone to his parents in Scotland, together with extracts from Makeni Hospital records of the same period, provides...

The early days of the electron microprobe were characterized by the variety of designs emerging from different laboratories in Europe, the United States, and the USSR. Examples from Europe illustrate well the diverging trends in the evolutionary process at that time. Later, commercial pressures and a better understanding of user needs forced a rationalization on both sides of the Atlantic, to t...