LEADER 02826nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910583578703321 005 20220715 010 $a1-4214-2800-8 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023643 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88751 035 $a(oapen)doab88751 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023643 100 $a20202207d2010 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWould Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?$eTechnological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 330 $aAfter 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. Instead of achieving a worker's paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual-and exhausting-burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of communism's self-proclaimed glorious quest to "reach and surpass" the West. Josephson's intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system. 517 $aWould Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? 606 $aHistory of engineering and technology$2bicssc 610 $aHistory of engineering & technology 615 7$aHistory of engineering and technology 700 $aJosephson$b Paul R$4auth$0685141 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583578703321 996 $aWould Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth$92605781 997 $aUNINA