India of 1920s as Seen by Soviet Playwright, Consulting Indologists, Theater Critics

Demonizing Judaism In The Soviet Union During The 1920s

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Planning the Soviet Defense Industry: the Late 1920s and 1930s*

The paper describes the procedures for planning the Soviet defense industry in the interwar period and analyses its limitations. Three features differentiated the planning of the defense industry from that of the civilian economy. First, the supply of national defense in the broadest sense had high priority and received the close attention of the country’s top leadership. Second, the process of...

Joyce the Playwright

Vacuum structure as seen by overlap fermions

Three complementary views on the QCD vacuum structure, all based on eigenmodes of the overlap operator, are reported in their interrelation: (i) spectral density, localization and chiral properties of the modes, (ii) the possibility of filtering the field strength with the aim to detect selfdual and antiselfdual domains and (iii) the various faces of the topological charge density, with and wit...

The first stars, as seen by supercomputers

April 2011 Physics Today 51 Some 400 000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was cool enough that electrons and protons could come together to form neutral hydrogen. Through study of the cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmologists have gained an excellent understanding of the state of the universe at that “recombination” time. By the time the universe was 1 billion years old, it cont...