List of Illustrations
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Germany, Russia, and Medical Cooperation between the Wars
SUSAN GROSS SOLOMON
Part One: ‘Choosing’ Scientific Friends
1 German Overtures to Russia, 1919–1925: Between Racial Expansion and National Coexistence
PAUL WEINDLING
2 Partners of Choice/Faute de Mieux? Russians and Germans at the 200th Anniversary of the Academy of Sciences, 1925
MARINA SOROKINA
3 Leftists versus Nationalists in Soviet–Weimar Cultural Diplomacy: Showcases, Fronts, and Boomerangs
MICHAEL DAVID-FOX
Part Two: Scientific Entrepreneurs across Borders
4 How to Win Friends and Influence People: Heinz Zeiss, Boundary Objects, and the Pursuit of Cross-National Scientific Collaboration in Microbiology
ELIZABETH HACHTEN
5 ‘Creating Confidence’: Heinz Zeiss as a Traveller in the Soviet Union, 1921–1932
WOLFGANG ECKART
6 Infertile Soil: Heinz Zeiss and the Import of Medical Geography to Russia, 1922–1930
SUSAN GROSS SOLOMON
7 The Scientist as Lobbyist: Heinz Zeiss and Auslandsdeutschtum
SABINE SCHLEIERMACHER
Part Three: Bilateralism and Internationalism
8 Castor and Pollux in Brain Research: The Berlin and the Moscow Brain Research Institutes
JOCHEN R ICHTER
9 Eugenics, Rassenhygiene, and Human Genetics in the Late 1930s: The Case of the Seventh International Genetics Congress
NIKOLAI KREMENTSOV
Part Four: Scientific Migration to ‘the Other’
10 Home Away from Home: The Berlin Neuroanatomist Louis Jacobsohn-Lask in Russia
ULRIKE EISENBERG
11 Crossing Over: The Emigration of German-Jewish Physicians to the Soviet Union after 1933
CAROLA T ISCHLER
Index