technological utopianism under socialism, 1917-1989 /
Paul R. Josephson.
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : tractors, steel mills, concrete, and other joys of socialism -- Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth? Technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s -- Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe -- From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment -- Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism -- Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism -- No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise -- The gendered tractor.