Название: Technology and society under Lenin and Stalin: origins of the Soviet technical intelligentsia, 1917-1941
Автор: Kendall E. Bailes
Издательство: Princeton Univ. Press
Год: 1978
ISBN: 0691100632
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 472
Размер: 11,5 mb
Язык: English

The recent history of the Soviet technostructure, or technical intelligentsia, as it is called in the U.S.S.R., reveals a paradox. Just as the Russian nobility staffed the upper levels of the Tsarist bureaucracy before 1917, and provided the core of the “critically-thinking” intelligentsia during the nineteenth century, since Stalin’s death, the Soviet technical intelligentsia has emerged as the single largest element from which the ruling elite has been recruited, and has also been a large segment of the new, critically-minded intelligentsia, recent repressions of the latter notwithstanding. In the words of the Russian proverb quoted above, “Friendship and enmity are close neighbors”—an epigram that seems particularly applicable to the Soviet technostructure in its relations with the power structure. What was there in the social environment and history of this group that would help account for these apparently contradictory developments?

The present monograph represents an initial effort at analyzing the origins and role of a central group within the Soviet technostructure in the period between the 1917 revolutions and the German invasion of 1941.