Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989

• Hoofdauteur: Josephson, Paul R. (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
• Onderwerpen: History of engineering & technology
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 peas...