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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Soviet Engineering Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiroshi Ichikawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351374222
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War written by Hiroshi Ichikawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobilized to several military-related research and development projects not only in the United States, but also in the Soviet Union. Contrary to the expectation of General Leslie Groves, a leader of the Manhattan Project, the Soviet Union succeeded in their nuclear weapon development in a very short time. And then, by the end of the decade, mankind reached the dawn of the Atomic Age proper with the beginning of the operation of the world’s first civil nuclear power plant in Obninsk in 1954. The risky and costly developments of new weapons such as rockets, jet warplanes, and computers were achieved by the Soviet Union in a very short time after World War ? in spite of the heavy economic damage caused by the battles with German troops in Soviet territory. Why were such a great number of scientific talents mobilized to various Soviet Cold War research and development projects? What were the true natures, and real consequences of the rushed Cold War projects? How did Soviet scientists approach the nuclear age? Thanks to the study of formerly classified Soviet archives, a more nuanced view of Soviet society has become possible. To resolve the above-mentioned questions, Ichikawa analyses the complicated interactions among various factors, including the indigenous contradictions in the historical development of science in the Soviet Union; conflicts among the related interest groups; relationships with the political leadership and the military, the role of ideology and others.
Author : Loren Graham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674354364
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)
Download or read book The Ghost of the Executed Engineer written by Loren Graham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky’s ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his time, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. The story of this visionary engineer’s life and work, as Loren Graham relates it, is also the story of the Soviet Union’s industrial promise and failure. We meet Palchinsky in pre-Revolutionary Russia, immersed in protests against the miserable lot of laborers in the tsarist state, protests destined to echo ironically during the Soviet worker’s paradise. Exiled from the country, pardoned and welcomed back at the outbreak of World War I, the engineer joined the ranks of the Revolutionary government, only to find it no more open to criticism than the previous regime. His turbulent career offers us a window on debates over industrialization. Graham highlights the harsh irrationalities built into the Soviet system—the world’s most inefficient steel mill in Magnitogorsk, the gigantic and ill-conceived hydroelectric plant on the Dnieper River, the infamously cruel and mislocated construction of the White Sea Canal. Time and again, we see the effects of policies that ignore not only the workers’ and consumers’ needs but also sound management and engineering precepts. And we see Palchinsky’s criticism and advice, persistently given, consistently ignored, continue to haunt the Soviet Union right up to its dissolution in 1991. The story of a man whose gifts and character set him in the path of history, The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is also a cautionary tale about the fate of an engineering that disregards social and human issues.
Author : Benjamin Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034182
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book How Not to Network a Nation written by Benjamin Peters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.
Author : United States Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services
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Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Distillation Engineering Research and Development in the USSR. written by United States Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 670 pages
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Download or read book Soviet Engineering Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.). Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ nauchno-issledovatelʹskiĭ institut gidrotekhniki
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Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Soviet Hydro Engineering : a Classified Collection of Research Reports written by Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.). Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ nauchno-issledovatelʹskiĭ institut gidrotekhniki and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309090938
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is intended to provide a brief historical perspective of the evolution of the interacademy program during the past half-century, recognizing that many legacies of the Soviet era continue to influence government approaches in Moscow and Washington and to shape the attitudes of researchers toward bilateral cooperation in both countries (of special interest is the changing character of the program during the age of perestroika (restructuring) in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union); to describe in some detail the significant interacademy activities from late 1991, when the Soviet Union fragmented, to mid-2003; and to set forth lessons learned about the benefits and limitations of interacademy cooperation and to highlight approaches that have been successful in overcoming difficulties of implementation.
Author : E. P. Velikhov
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483147029
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology and the Future written by E. P. Velikhov and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, Technology and the Future is an analysis of the problems of and prospects for the development of science and technology and their role in society. Drawing on the perspectives of Soviet scientists, this book examines the relation between society and nature as well as the prospects for resolving ecological problems with the aid of science and technology. This book is comprised of 33 chapters and begins with a discussion on the role of science and technology in modern society and their place in the solution of global problems. The axiological and ethical aspects of the development of science and the mechanism of scientific and technical progress, economics, and social development are also considered. The next section deals with concrete questions pertaining to the development of natural and technical sciences and their significance for the future of mankind, with emphasis on the role of science in the development of productive forces; the state of and the prospects for resolving the energy problem; the most important achievements in the leading branches of physics, chemistry, and biology; opportunities for utilizing space research for man's daily needs; oceanology and geology in the year 2000; science and fertility of the soils; materials for the technology of the future; and prospects for the development of automation and man's place in future production. This monograph will be of interest to sociologists, environmentalists, and science policymakers.
Author : Milton Leitenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065263
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Biological Weapons Program written by Milton Leitenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSR’s offensive biological weapons research, from inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the U.S. and U.K. never obtained clear evidence that he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be present in Russia today.
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Soil and Foundation Engineering in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul M. Cocks
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Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Science Policy in the Soviet Union written by Paul M. Cocks and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Joint Publications Research Service
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Coordination of Scientific Research--a State Task--USSR written by United States. Joint Publications Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zhuyuan Zheng
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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scientific and Engineering Manpower in Communist China, 1949-1963 written by Zhuyuan Zheng and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. N. Nasledov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781489949448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Soviet Research in NEW SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS written by D. N. Nasledov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loren R. Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521287890
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Science in Russia and the Soviet Union written by Loren R. Graham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that reader. The history of Russian and Soviet science is a story of remarkable achievements and frustrating failures. That history is presented here in a comprehensive form, and explained in terms of its social and political context. Major sections include the tsarist period, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the relationship between science and Soviet society, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual scientific disciplines. The book also discusses the changes brought to science in Russia and other republics by the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Science Policy: Science policy in the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
