The Ghost of the Executed Engineer

Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union

Loren Graham

    1. The Radical Engineer

    2. From Political Prisoner to Soviet Consultant

    3. Early Soviet Industrialization

    4. Technocracy, Soviet Style

    5. Contemporary Engineering Failures

    Epilogue: The Ghost of Peter Palchinsky

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: The Ghost of the Executed Engineer
  • A photo of the author

Loren Graham is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.