The Ghost of the Executed Engineer : Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union

Loren Graham

ISBN 10: 0674354370 / ISBN 13: 9780674354371

Published by Harvard University Press Feb 1996, 1996

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Neuware - Through Graham, executed engineer Peter Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. Palchinsky's story is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure. Seller Inventory # 9780674354371

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Title: The Ghost of the Executed Engineer : ...

Publisher: Harvard University Press Feb 1996

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Taschenbuch

Condition: Neu

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Synopsis:

Through Graham, executed engineer Peter Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. Palchinsky’s story is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure.

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Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky's ghost leads us through a miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out.