[19] November 25 - Radical engineers
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Albert Fonó, "The proletarian dictatorship and the engineers," Magyar Mérnök- és Épitész-Egylet Közlönye 53 no. 13 (1919): 97. [original Hungarian here]Jeffrey Herf, "Engineers as ideologues," Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (1984), 152-188. [on campus access only]
Harley Balzer, "Soviet engineers: The rise and decline of a social myth," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order (1990), 141-167. [NB: it's only the first ten pages that immediately concern us, so you can skip lightly over the remainder, but do take note of the conclusion.]
Further reading:
Evgenii Paton, "Stormy days," Vospominaniia (1958).
Kendall E. Bailes, “The politics of technology: Stalin and technocratic thinking among Soviet engineers,” American Historical Review 79 (1974): 445–469.
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Due: Monday, 25 November 2024, 5:59 PM
In anticipation of your research paper please prepare an annotated bibliography of ten sources; at least two must be primary sources. For present purposes "annotated" means one sentence explaining the potential relevance of the source to your anticipated argument in the paper.