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Author : Raymond Hutchings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Soviet Science, Technology, Design written by Raymond Hutchings and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dzhermen Mikhaĭlovich Gvishiani
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology, and the Future written by Dzhermen Mikhaĭlovich Gvishiani and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1980 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a chapter on automation & man.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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:
Author : Simon Ings
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802189865
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Stalin and the Scientists written by Simon Ings and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the finest, most gripping surveys of the history of Russian science in the twentieth century.” —Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Stalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the “Great Scientist” himself, Joseph Stalin. It weaves together the stories of scientists, politicians, and ideologues into an intimate and sometimes horrifying portrait of a state determined to remake the world. They often wreaked great harm. Stalin was himself an amateur botanist, and by falling under the sway of dangerous charlatans like Trofim Lysenko (who denied the existence of genes), and by relying on antiquated ideas of biology, he not only destroyed the lives of hundreds of brilliant scientists, he caused the death of millions through famine. But from atomic physics to management theory, and from radiation biology to neuroscience and psychology, these Soviet experts also made breakthroughs that forever changed agriculture, education, and medicine. A masterful book that deepens our understanding of Russian history, Stalin and the Scientists is a great achievement of research and storytelling, and a gripping look at what happens when science falls prey to politics. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2016 A New York Times Book Review “Paperback Row” selection “Ings’s research is impressive and his exposition of the science is lucid . . . Filled with priceless nuggets and a cast of frauds, crackpots and tyrants, this is a lively and interesting book, and utterly relevant today.” —The New York Times Book Review “A must read for understanding how the ideas of scientific knowledge and technology were distorted and subverted for decades across the Soviet Union.” —The Washington Post
Author : Paul M. Cocks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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 : 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.
Author : Tom Cubbin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350021989
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Soviet Critical Design written by Tom Cubbin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Critical Design is the first book to explore the socialist design practice of 'artistic projecteering', which was developed by the USSR's Senezh Experimental Studio in the 1960s. Tom Cubbin examines the studio as a site for the development of the design discipline in the optimistic environment of the 1960s Soviet Thaw. He also explores how designers adapted to the fast-changing Soviet Union of the 1970s and 1980s, considering their approach to critical projects highlighting the Soviet state's treatment of citizens, urban heritage and public spaces. Drawing on previously unpublished visual material from private archives and also extensive interviews, this book presents a new history of the late socialist period in the USSR, which gives insight into the creative strategies of designers who engaged their practice as a contribution to broader discussions on alternative models for socialist existence. Cubbin shows how artistic projecteering must be read as a utopian activity which privileged the political and ideological over the functional.
Author : Harley Balzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000312690
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Soviet Science On The Edge Of Reform written by Harley Balzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is my sincere hope that the reforms currently being introduced in the USSR will render much of this book obsolete. Yet, even if perestroika brings significant change to the Soviet Union, historians will want a record of what existed before. After four years, it has become apparent that perestroika is a painful long-term process. In such a large and diverse country, even the reforms that are successful cannot take place everywhere at once. One major goal in publishing this book is to make data from a major interview project on Soviet science and technology available to a broader audience. Despite the changes taking place, many of the features illuminated by these unique data persist.
Author : Library of Congress. Science and Technology Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Soviet Science and Technology written by Library of Congress. Science and Technology Division and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mose L. Harvey
Publisher : [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Science and Technology as an Instrument of Soviet Policy written by Mose L. Harvey and published by [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami. This book was released on 1972 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bent︠s︡ion Zakharovich Milʹner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Planning of Science and Technology in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics written by Bent︠s︡ion Zakharovich Milʹner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Detlef Mertins
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838660536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Soviet Space Graphics written by Detlef Mertins and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful, whimsical journey through the pioneering space-race graphics of the former Soviet Union This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia. Created against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, the extraordinary images featured, taken from the period's hugely successful popular-science magazines, were a vital tool for the promotion of state ideology. Presenting more than 250 illustrations - depicting daring discoveries, scientific innovations, futuristic visions, and extraterrestrial encounters - Soviet Space Graphics unlocks the door to the creative inner workings of the USSR.
Author : I. G. Kurakov
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483279456
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology and Communism written by I. G. Kurakov and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, Technology, and Communism: Some Questions of Development focuses on the relationship of science, technology, and communism, including indicator of incentives, formation of funds, technological processes, and production processes. The book first offers information on science as a direct productive force in society and material incentives for the development of science and technology. Discussions focus on basic indicator of incentives, formation of funds for the development of science and technology and material incentives, and system of collective and individual material incentives. The text then elaborates on the general tasks in the development of science and technology, including the development and improvement of existing technological processes, automation and mechanization of production processes, and improvement of methods for planning national economic development. The publication ponders on directions in the development of science and technology and planning the development of science and technology. Topics include mechanical energy, chemical products, distribution of productive forces in an economic district, choice of scientific and scientific-technical tasks to be included in plans for the development of science and technology, and perspective planning of the development of science and technology. The book is a vital source of data for readers interested in the relationship of science, technology, and communism.
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Soviet Science and Technology .... written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Dyker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135018626
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Future of the Soviet Economic Planning System (Routledge Revivals) written by David A. Dyker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its publication in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the origins of the Soviet economic planning system and the theories which founded it, previous attempts to reform the organisational structure and the particular problem of agriculture, Dyker presents a picture of an increasingly bleak future for the Soviet economy. This is a comprehensive title written by a renowned expert on the Soviet economy, which will be of particular value to students and academics researching the political and economic development and history of the Soviet Union.
Author : Victor Buchli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000180980
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Material Culture Reader written by Victor Buchli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study of material culture. With topics ranging from the anthropology of art to architecture, landscape studies, archaeology, consumption studies and heritage management, this key text reflects the breadth of material culture studies today. The authors, who discuss field sites as distant as Vanuatu, New Ireland, Trinidad and Soviet Russia, show how material culture provides a new lens for viewing the world around us and effectively bridges the gap between theory and data. Providing the first-ever synthesis of these ground-breaking essays in an easily accessible volume, this book will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the subject and a valuable reference guide for anyone interested in material culture, anthropology, art and museum studies.
