Technology, Culture and Development: The Experience of the Soviet Model

by Loren R. Graham

Book Overview

Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. The book surveys the history and current state of science and technology in the USSR and its former satellites. It then looks at the economic environment for technological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873328922
• ISBN13: 9780873328920
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"