I wish this kind of soft diplomacy was more common today.
It’s a lot cheaper than bombing schools.
Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
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#52I wish this kind of soft diplomacy was more common today. It’s a lot cheaper than bombing schools.
Well there's your problem. You can't grift the stock markets over a weekend with a shipment of books.
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#53Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good thing we've overcome that! Today, in the land of the free, researchers' passion is rewarded with good salaries and working conditions. Right?
I assure you that Soviets did not have the kind of ```science``` that is temporarily defunded in the US.
Oh come on, Scientific Communism was even a separate discipline in universities.
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#55Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
I inherited a large (to me) collection of books from the USSR from my grandfather who immigrated here. Do you know how someone could find a collector or something who would appreciate them? I'm not looking to make money here, I just don't want the books to stay on the shelf of someone who will never read or appreciate them.
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#56Better link? https://archive.org/details/mir-titles
Curator/maintainer of Mir Titles here. The blog and the archive page are not in sync, we try to publish one book a day on the blog. The archive collection has more (recent) titles than the blog.
Good to know! Why do all posts on your blog have the "follow us" with all the social links though? Seems like a lot of wasted space on the whole webpage
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#57Quick question. What do soviets make great researchers? I noticed this pattern in ml, math & physics research. Is it that they have better quality books?
They had a thing of encouraging talent and putting it in special schools to develop it. Then Maths reading groups etc.
Not only that. Corporations are filled with excellent software developers from Russia who did not go to any specialized schools or graduated from prestigious universities.
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#58Quick question. What do soviets make great researchers? I noticed this pattern in ml, math & physics research. Is it that they have better quality books?
Russians consider their profession a calling and try to be the best at it. Makes big difference when it's calling and not just-a-job.
I dunno what attitude russia's gen-z holds towards profession but in my time it was definitely considered a calling.
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#59Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
Very cool. (Love to also see a collection of Soviet Life magazine. What's out there, that I have been able to find, is pretty slim.)
Magazines are tricky to get hold of, as they were ephemeral and not seen to be of lasting value. Two magazines which we have been looking for are Misha! (though some volumes are there) and Science in the USSR, ( I distinctly remember one with interviews about great Lev Landau by his colleagues).
Re: Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
#60Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
I inherited a large (to me) collection of books from the USSR from my grandfather who immigrated here. Do you know how someone could find a collector or something who would appreciate them? I'm not looking to make money here, I just don't want the books to stay on the shelf of someone who will never read or appreciate them.
We could host them, I personally have a collection of about 2k Soviet books, about 6-7k in total.