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The Ghost of the Executed Engineer

Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union

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$33.00 • £28.95 • €30.95

ISBN 9780674354371

Publication Date: 02/01/1996

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154 pages

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

18 halftones, 2maps

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  • 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

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