Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism Under Socialism, 1917-1989

by Paul R. Josephson

Book Overview

After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "I have seen the future, and it works." Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant--figuratively and literally--into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894107
• ISBN13: 9780801894107
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"