1st Edition
Technology, Culture and Development The Experience of the Soviet Model
By James P. Scanlan
Copyright 1992
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. The book surveys the history and current state of science and technology in the USSR and its former... Read more
Chapter 1 The Fits and Starts of Russian and Soviet Technology, Loren R. Graham; Chapter 2 Science and Technology as Panacea in Gorbachev's Russia, Paul R. Josephson; Chapter 3 Innovation Strategies in Centrally Planned and Transition Economies, Susan J. Linz; Chapter 4 Science and Technology in Eastern Europe after the Flood: Rejoining the World, Steven W. Popper; Chapter 5 Eastern Europe and the “Energy Shock” of 1990, John M. Kramer; Chapter 6 Ecology and Technology in the USSR, Joan DeBardeleben; Chapter 7 Technology and the Environment in Eastern Europe, Barbara Jancar-Webster;
Biography
Loren R. Graham, Paul R. Josephson, Susan J. Linz, Steven W. Popper, John M. Kramer, Joan DeBardeleben, Barbara Jancar-Webster
