Nikolay Krementsov, University of Toronto

Research

history of science science and literature cultural resource history of Russia Bolsheviks

Latest funding

The valley of a new life: science and literature in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$117,909
Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1890-1939
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$48,000
Revolutionary experiments: the new man in Soviet biology and medicine
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$70,000

All 3 grants and awards

The valley of a new life: science and literature in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Krementsov, Nikolay

Keywords: history of science; science and literature; cultural resource; history of Russia; Bolsheviks

$117,909

Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1890-1939

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Krementsov, Nikolay

Keywords: eugenics; Russia; social policy; history of science; history of medicine; cultural history; human variability; heredity; and evolution; fiction

$48,000

Revolutionary experiments: the new man in Soviet biology and medicine

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Krementsov, Nikolay

Keywords: history and philosophy of science and medicine; Soviet Union; new man; experimental biology; experimental medicine; Bolshevik revolution; science and ideology

$70,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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