Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941

by Kendall E. Bailes

Overview

From the Soviet technical intelligentsia emerged more than three quarters of recent Politburo members, including Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny. The largest single group of dissenters, including Grigorenko, Sakharov, and Solzhenitsyn, have also been members.

Originally published in 1978.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691605753
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	03/08/2015
Series:	Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University , #1813
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Contents, pg. v
• List of Illustration, pg. vii
• Preface, pg. xi
• Introduction, pg. 1
• 1. Background of the Russian Technostructure: From the Tsarist Era to 1918, pg. 19
• 2. The Soviet Technostructure, 1918-1928, pg. 44
• 3. The Shakhty Affair, pg. 69
• 4. The Industrial Party Affair, pg. 95
• 5. The Aftermath of the Shakhty and Industrial Party Trials, pg. 122
• 6. Old Specialists and New Patrons: The End of Terror, pg. 141
• 7. Cultural Revolution and the Creation of a New Technical Intelligentsia, 1928-1933, pg. 159
• 8. Recruitment of the New Technostructure: Class, Sex, and Ethnic Origins, 1928-1941, pg. 188
• 9. The Educational Experience: Quantity and Quality, 1928-1941, pg. 216
• 10. The Educational Experience: Student Life and Attitudes, 1928-1941, pg. 244
• 11. The Production Specialist and the Politics of Planning, pg. 265
• 12. The Flight from Production: Causes and Consequences, pg. 297
• 13. Research and Development: The Barriers to Innovation, pg. 337
• 14. Technology and Legitimacy: Soviet Aviation and Stalinism in the 1930s, pg. 381
• Conclusions, pg. 407
• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations, pg. 427
• Appendix, pg. 431
• Selected Bibliography, pg. 443
• Index, pg. 459
• Studies of the Russian Institute, pg. 471