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Revision as of 19:55, 20 February 2009 by Miacek (talk | contribs) (←Created page with ''''Gustav Naan''' (1919 - January 1995) was an Estonian cosmologist and philosopher. He was born in Russian SFSR in a village near [[Vladivost…')(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Gustav Naan (1919 - January 1995) was an Estonian cosmologist and philosopher. He was born in Russian SFSR in a village near Vladivostok to a family of Estonian settlers. He graduated the Leningrad State University in 1941Having returned to Estonia after the USSR annexed Estonia, Naan, a loyal communist, published a number of Stalinist-oriented polemic pieces (treating Estonian history and politics from the pro-Soviet perspective). Naan was the director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1950—1951), Vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1951—1964). From 1964, Naan worked at the Institute of Astrophysics and Atmosphere Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Having turned to theorizing on cosmology, cybernetics and demography, he often rejected taboos of both the 'traditional' world-view and orthodox communist opinions on such matters. He later re-called that he had been one of the promoters of the theory of relativity at the time this was still considered pseudoscience by the Soviet authorities. Naan was editor-in-chief of Eesti Nõukogude Entsüklopeedia (literally: Estonian Soviet Encyclopedia), the first edition of which started in late 1960s. In terms of political affiliations, Naan remained a supporter of the communist system and an was a devote opponent of Estonia's pro-independence movement; Naan was a member of the (pro-Moscow) Internationalist Movement. Having gained much public support in 1970s for on topics like family, ethics and sex, he soon became a popularly despised figure for his anti-independence stance reflected in his newspaper articles of the time (published in Pravda).
References
- “Dependence and opposition. Problems in Soviet Estonian historiography in the late 1940s and early 1950s” by Hain Rebas. In: Journal of Baltic Studies, Volume 36, Issue 4 Winter 2005 , pages 423 - 448
- “Philosophy of science in Estonia” by Rein Vihalemm and Peeter Müürsepp. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Volume 38, Number 1 / April, 2007, pp. 167-191.
External links
- Template:Ru iconhttp://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/astronomy/article/ast/ast-0320.htm