The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet Union's first five year plan, the period of this study, was the crucial period for the Academy. During this time the Academy was transformed. Between 1927 and