The Evolution of Homo Sovieticus: The Representation of the Scientist in Post-war Soviet Film

Tom McLenachan (UCL SSEES)

This paper explores the representation of the scientist in Aleksandr Razumnyi’s Miklukho-Maklai (1947) in the context of cultural and ideological debates on science in the Soviet Union.

Considering Miklukho-Maklai alongside contemporaneous biographical films about scientists, it highlights key tropes and nonconformities and paves the way for further discussion about the relationship between science, the arts and ideology in the Soviet Union.