Principals of state administration of sciencein the USSR (1960-1980)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the
interaction of authorities and scientific intellectuals in
the USSR at the final stage of the industrially modernization.
The work shows that the basic levers of state
administration science were state order (goszakaz),
legislation and budget financing of scientific schools,
which made it possible to regulate scientific activity, social
composition and the number of scientific associations.
The author emphasizes paternalistic character of
the state policy concerning scientific groups, authorities
care for the development of fundamental investigations,
their guarantee of science-production ties especially in
the military industrial sector.