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Chargement... The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Unionpar Loren Graham
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Stalin ordered his execution, but here Palchinksy's ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, and the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. The story of this engineer's life and work, as Graham tells it, is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I'm skeptical of some of the connections drawn here, but the heart of the book is in the biography and engineering stories, and they do shine through. Some mind-boggling facts jump out; in 1986, most of the members of the Politburo had engineering educations, but engineers had to take 3 non-technical classes: political economy (i.e. the Marxist stages of history), dialectic materialism, and the history of the Communist Party. I do feel that more explanation would have been useful about why so few people were interested in studying engineering, if it was the road to political power it seemed to be. ( )