Early Attempts to Form a Russian Chemical Society

3 Early Attempts to Form a Russian Chemical Society 

Perhaps the largest impediment for organizing a formal society was the attitude of the state officials. Organizing a voluntary society in Russia was far more difficult at this time than in most countries of Western Europe or the United States. State approval was necessary for any formal society, even if the proposed 

Rudakov, Ucheniia uchrezhdeniia, in section Rossiia in Entsiklopedicheskii slovar [Brokgauz and Efron] (St. Petersburg, 1909), 414 116. 

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