Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism Under Socialism, 1917-1989

by Paul R. Josephson

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After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "I have seen the future, and it works." Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant--figuratively and literally--into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801894107

ISBN13:9780801894107

Release Date:February 2010

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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