The Ghost of the Executed Engineer

Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union

Loren Graham

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$31.50 • £25.95 • €28.50

ISBN 9780674354371

Publication Date: 02/01/1996

Short

154 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

18 halftones, 2maps

Russian Research Center Studies

World

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

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