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Were Soviet leaders mostly engineers?

• MagnumOpus 9y ago
  Very mixed. Stalin had a liberal arts education in the broadest sense. Krushchev was a metal worker, Brezhnev was an engineer (metallurgy), Gorbachev was a lawyer. Andropov studied marine engineering but was really only at the university to become a professional political lifer and switched to studying politics and history after the war...
  • gaius 9y ago
    You should read the book Soviet Science Wars, it's fascinating. The Soviets almost didn't get nukes because Lenin disagreed with physics on the nature of atoms...