LEADER 05036nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910825394203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-09922-1 010 $a9786612099229 010 $a0-262-26745-4 010 $a1-4356-1112-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000480577 035 $a(OCoLC)647678118 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10197073 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000234247 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11193511 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234247 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235202 035 $a(PQKB)10599064 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338752 035 $a(OCoLC)182722774$z(OCoLC)743198338$z(OCoLC)815776635$z(OCoLC)1058138521$z(OCoLC)1060781659$z(OCoLC)1064139649$z(OCoLC)1074321924 035 $a(OCoLC-P)182722774 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7446 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197073 035 $a(OCoLC)182722774 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000480577 100 $a20070109d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRed Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 /$fDolores Augustine 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMassachusetts Institute of Technology$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (412 p.) 225 1 $aTransformations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-01236-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 The "Great Eastward Trek": German Specialists in the Soviet Union -- 2 Reinventing Professionalism in Soviet-Occupied Germany and the Early GDR -- 3 Under Siege: Facing Challenges to Professionalism in the Ulbricht Era -- 4 In Pursuit of an Electronic Future: High-Tech Pioneers and Communist Bureaucracy in the Ulbricht Era -- 5 The Old Guard under Attack: Three High-Tech Research Directors in the "Reform" Era and Beyond -- 6 Red Prometheus: Technological Fantasies in Popular Culture and Propaganda -- 7 Careerists and Conformists, Individualists and Technology Enthusiasts: Engineers and Computer Scientists in the Honecker Era -- 8 High Ambitions: Careerism and High-Tech Research during the New Cold War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important part of East German socialist identity--crucial to how Communists saw their system and how citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus, Dolores Augustine examines the relationship between a dictatorial system and the scientific and engineering communities in East Germany from the end of the Second World War through the 1980s. Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, Augustine looks in detail at individual scientists' interactions with the East German system, examining the effectiveness of their resistance against the party's totalitarian impulses. She explains why many German scientists and engineers who were deported to the Soviet Union after World War II returned to East Germany rather than defecting to the capitalist West, traces scientists' attempts to hold on to some aspects of professional autonomy, and describes challenges to their professional identity on the factory floor. Augustine examines the quality of science and technology produced under Communist rule, looking at failed research projects and clashing cultures of innovation. She looks at technological myth-building in science fiction and propaganda. She explores individual career strategies, including the role played by gender in high-tech professions, and the ways that both enterprises and individuals responded to increasing state and party control of research during the 1980s. We cannot understand the economic choices made by East Germany, Augustine argues, unless we understand the cultural values reflected in the East German belief in technology as indispensable to progress and industrial development. 606 $aEngineering$zGermany (East)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTechnology$zGermany (East)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGermany (East)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEngineering$xHistory 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory 676 $a620.00943/1 686 $a15.70$2bcl 700 $aAugustine$b Dolores L$01135497 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825394203321 996 $aRed Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990$94112642 997 $aUNINA