TY - JOUR
AU - Taylor, Eugene
AB -  This is a book about the triumph of scientific materialism in the late nineteenth century, in which two separate stories are told, one about the rise of scientific investigations into the reality of telepathy, clairvoyance, and life after death, with the founding of the Society for Psychical Research in England in 1882, and the other concerning forces underlying materialistic science as the foundation for Marxist ideology which drove the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 and its aftermath, primarily through the regimes of Lenin and Stalin, marking the direction of world Communism even up to the present day. The work gets its title from the official Funeral Committee immediately appointed March 24, 1923, upon Lenin's death, that was to plan the disposition of Lenin's body, and its preservation and intombment. Three days later, the official title of the Committee was changed to “The Immortalization Commission,” spearheading the ideology driving the event to achieve immortality through science. Lenin had stood among them as the very first member of the Communist Party, so it was of primary importance that his body be preserved into eternity, or until that time when science had progressed to return the dead to the living. 
TI - John Gray . The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death . New York, NY : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2011 . 288 pp. $24.00 (hardcover). ISBN‐13: 978‐0374175061.
JF - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
DO - 10.1002/jhbs.21558
DA - 2012-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/john-gray-the-immortalization-commission-science-and-the-strange-quest-nzB07zyppS
SP - 293
EP - 294
VL - 48
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -