Paul R. Josephson - Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technologic
| Schrijver: | Paul R. Josephson |
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| Titel: | Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989 |
| ISBN: | 9780801894107 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2010, Linnen band met stofomslag, 352p |
| Prijs: | € 22,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 4,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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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. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and Kim Il Sung of North Korea-and other leaders-joined Russia's Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in embracing big technology with a verve and conviction that rivaled the western world's. Paul R. Josephson here explores these utopian visions of technology-and their unanticipated human and environmental costs. He examines the role of technology in communist plans and policies and the interplay between ideology and technological development. He shows that while technology was a symbol of regime legitimacy and an engine of progress, the changes it spurred were not unequivocally positive.
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