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Josephson details the uses and abuses of technology in the Soviet Union under Stalin, throughout Eastern European nations under Soviet influence after WW II, and in North Korea.
Important opus.
Josephson has, most engagingly, pointed the way toward questions worth exploring further.
Deals with a variety of issues central to society and the economy, not just in the socialist countries of the past but also in today’s capitalist societies.
With Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Paul Josephson has become the foremost historian of his generation of Soviet science and technology. His analysis of Technological Utopianism during the entire Soviet regime is characteristically original, provocative, and profound. This is a pathbreaking book that deserves a wide readership.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tractors, Steel Mills, Concrete, and Other Joys of Socialism
1. Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
2. Proletarian
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tractors, Steel Mills, Concrete, and Other Joys of Socialism
1. Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
2. Proletarian Aesthetics: Technology and Socialism in Eastern Europe
3. From Kimchi to Concrete: The North Korean Experiment
4. Floating Reactors: Nuclear Hubris after the Fall of Communism
5. Industrial Deserts: Technology and Environmental Degradation under Socialism
6. No Hard Hats, No Steel-toed Shoes Required: Worker Safety in the Proletarian Paradise
7. The Gendered Tractor
Notes
Index