[2] September 24 — TECHNOCRATS, PROFESSIONALS, AND WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Daniel Orlovsky, "The hidden class: White-collar workers in the Soviet 1920s," in L. H. Siegelbaum and R. G. Suny, eds., Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity (1994), 220-252.
S. Raetskii, "Managing the managers" (1921).
Further resources:Michael David-Fox, "Science, orthodoxy, and the quest for hegemony at the Socialist (Communist) Academy," Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (1997), 192-253.
Kendall E. Bailes, “The politics of technology: Stalin and technocratic thinking among Soviet engineers,” American Historical Review 79 (1974): 445–469.Susanne Schattenberg, Stalins Ingenieure. Lebenswelten zwischen Technik und Terror in den 1930er Jahren (2002). [2011 Russian translation]
Don K. Rowney, Transition to Technocracy: The Structural Origins of the Soviet Administrative State (1989).
Mark Beissinger, Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power (1988).
Kendall Bailes, Technology and Society Under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941 (1978).
"Університет чи інститут?" Вісті (ВУЦВК) (Kharkiv, 10 March 1929). [at libraria.ua]
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