Constructing Socialism
Subtitle: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801863912
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; History of science; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Manufacturing; Technology And Society; Technology; History - General History; Socialism; History: World; East Germany, DDR; Nanotechnology; Europe - Germany; History; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; History / Europe / General; Germany (East); General; Social aspects; Technological Innovations
First sentence: With a cloud of blue smoke and a high-pitched whine, the Trabant powered by its two-stroke engine, carried many an East German westward after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.