Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth?
Subtitle: technological utopianism under socialism, 1917-1989
By: Paul R. Josephson.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780801894107
Subjects: Technology -- Social aspects; Technology -- Political aspects; Technology and civilization; Utopian socialism -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth? : technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s; title: Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe; title: From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment; title: Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism; title: Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism; title: No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise; title: The gendered tractor.