The Technical Intelligentsia And The East German Elite
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Author | : Thomas A. Baylis |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520335503 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author | : Baylis Thomas Arthur |
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Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Thomas Arthur Baylis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Elite (Social sciences) |
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Author | : Dolores L. Augustine |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262012367 |
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 part of East German socialist identity--crucial to how Communists saw their system and how citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus, Dolores Augustine examines the relationship between a dictatorial system and the scientific and engineering communities in East Germany from the end of the Second World War through the 1980s. Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, Augustine looks in detail at individual scientists' interactions with the East German system, examining the effectiveness of their resistance against the party's totalitarian impulses. She explains why many German scientists and engineers who were deported to the Soviet Union after World War II returned to East Germany rather than defecting to the capitalist West, traces scientists' attempts to hold on to some aspects of professional autonomy, and describes challenges to their professional identity on the factory floor. Augustine examines the quality of science and technology produced under Communist rule, looking at failed research projects and clashing cultures of innovation. She looks at technological myth-building in science fiction and propaganda. She explores individual career strategies, including the role played by gender in high-tech professions, and the ways that both enterprises and individuals responded to increasing state and party control of research during the 1980s. We cannot understand the economic choices made by East Germany, Augustine argues, unless we understand the cultural values reflected in the East German belief in technology as indispensable to progress and industrial development.
Author | : Thomas Arthur Baylis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Jennifer A. Yoder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
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This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.
Author | : Natalia Tsvetkova |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004252029 |
In Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities, 1945-1990 Natalia Tsvetkova describes the American and Soviet policies in German universities during the Cold War. In both parts of divided Germany the conservative professorate resisted both the American and Soviet policies of reforms in universities. Whether these policies can be considered cases of cultural imperialism will be discussed in this book. As well as how and why both American and Soviet policies of the transformation of German universities eventually failed.
Author | : Nessim Ghouas |
Publisher | : Cuvillier Verlag |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Espionage, East German |
ISBN | : 3898739880 |
Author | : Eugene K. Keefe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Germany (East) |
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Author | : Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2014-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118776143 |
The fourth edition of A History of Germany, 1918-2014: A Divided Nation introduces students to the key themes of 20th century German history, tracing the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918. Now thoroughly updated, the text includes new coverage of the Euro crisis and a review of Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship. New edition of a well-known, classic survey by a leading scholar in the field, thoroughly updated for a new generation of readers Provides an overview of the turbulent history of Germany from the end of the First World War through the Third Reich and beyond, examining the character and consequences of war and genocide Treats German history from 1918 to 2014 from the perspectives of instability, division and reunification, covering East and West German history in equal depth Offers important reflections on Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship as it extends into a new term Concise, substantive coverage of this period make it an ideal resource for undergraduate students