Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990

by Dolores L. Augustine

This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology.

In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012367
• ISBN13: 9780262012362
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher