CONTENTS // Foreword by Loren Graham / vi Introduction / ix // CHAPTER 1 // A Life for Science: Vernadsky s Development as a Scientist in Imperial Russia, 1863-1888 / 1 // CHAPTER 2 // Science and Society: The Origins of Vernadsky s Scientific School, 1888-1905 / 37 // CHAPTER 3 // The Politics of Moral Indignation: Vernadsky in Science and Politics, 1903-1914 / 80 // CHAPTER 4 // Science, War, and Revolution: Vernadsky and Soviet Science in Transition, 1914-1922 / 138 // CHAPTER 5 // The Vernadsky School and Soviet Science, 1922-1945 / 160 chapter 6 // The Legacy of Vernadsky s Scientific and Philosophical Thought / 179 // Notes / 199 Bibliography / 225 Index / 233