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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. Choice 2010 Important opus. -- Jonathan Coopersmith Russian Review 2010»
After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "I have seen the future, and it works." Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant-figuratively and literally-into the twentieth century. Les mer
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Instead of achieving a worker's paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual-and exhausting-burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of communism's self-proclaimed glorious quest to "reach and surpass" the West. Josephson's intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780801894107
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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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. Choice 2010 Important opus. -- Jonathan Coopersmith Russian Review 2010»