Science at the Crossroads was an anthology of the contributions of the delegation from the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

which attended the

Second International Congress of the History of Science The Second International Congress of the History of Science was held in London from June 29 to July 4, 1931. The Congress was organised by the International Committee of History of Science, in conjunction with the Comité International des Science ...

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, in ...

provided a foreword. It was republished with a new foreword and introduction in 1971.

Alfred Rupert Hall Alfred Rupert Hall (1920–2009) was a prominent British historian of science, known as editor of a collection of Isaac Newton's unpublished scientific papers (1962), and Newton's correspondence, in 1977. Life Hall was born near Stoke-on-Trent ...

wrote a scathing review, claiming that it had little impact in the

and that most of the contributors careers led, rather, to the prison camp and the execution squad.

The 1971 edition included:

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