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Late in the Joseph Stalin era, a physics teacher, Dimitri Lopatkin, invents a machine that revolutionizes the centrifugal casting of pipes, then a difficult and time-consuming operation. A loyal communist, he believes his invention will help the Soviet economy, but it is rejected by bureaucrats. Lopatkin begins to work on his machine for the military, but he is soon arrested and accused of passing secrets to his lover, Nadia Drozdova, the estranged wife of one of the officials who opposes him....

Excerpt from “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent” by John Erskine. If a wise man should ask. What are the modern virtues? and should answer his own question by a summary of the things we admire; if he should discard as irrelevant the ideals which by tradition we profess, but which are not found outside of the tradition or the profession — ideals like meekness, humility, the renunciation of this world; if he should include only those excellences to which our hearts are...