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    Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :MIT Press,
    UID:
    almafu_BV022880805
    Format: XXX, 381 S. : , Ill. ; , 24 cm.
    ISBN: 978-0-262-01236-2
    Series Statement: Transformations: Studies in the history of science and technology
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Diktatur ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Diktatur ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftspolitik ; Diktatur ; Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt
    Author information: Augustine, Dolores L.
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    UID:
    gbv_1658302265
    Format: 1 online resource (413 pages)
    ISBN: 9780262267458
    Series Statement: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
    Content: 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.
    Content: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 The "Great Eastward Trek": German Specialists in the Soviet Union -- 2 Reinventing Professionalism in Soviet-Occupied Germany and the Early GDR -- 3 Under Siege: Facing Challenges to Professionalism in the Ulbricht Era -- 4 In Pursuit of an Electronic Future: High-Tech Pioneers and Communist Bureaucracy in the Ulbricht Era -- 5 The Old Guard under Attack: Three High-Tech Research Directors in the "Reform" Era and Beyond -- 6 Red Prometheus: Technological Fantasies in Popular Culture and Propaganda -- 7 Careerists and Conformists, Individualists and Technology Enthusiasts: Engineers and Computer Scientists in the Honecker Era -- 8 High Ambitions: Careerism and High-Tech Research during the New Cold War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780262012362
    Additional Edition: Print version Augustine, Dolores L Red Prometheus : Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 Cambridge : MIT Press,c2007
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Augustine, Dolores L. Red Prometheus Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press, 2007 ISBN 0262012367
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780262012362
    Language: English
    Subjects: Engineering , History
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    Keywords: Deutschland ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Diktatur ; Geschichte ; Deutschland ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Diktatur ; Geschichte ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Diktatur ; Geschichte 1945-1990
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge, MA :Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
    UID:
    edocfu_9959243821202883
    Format: 1 online resource (412 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-282-09922-1 , 9786612099229 , 0-262-26745-4 , 1-4356-1112-8
    Series Statement: Transformations
    Content: 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.
    Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 The "Great Eastward Trek": German Specialists in the Soviet Union -- 2 Reinventing Professionalism in Soviet-Occupied Germany and the Early GDR -- 3 Under Siege: Facing Challenges to Professionalism in the Ulbricht Era -- 4 In Pursuit of an Electronic Future: High-Tech Pioneers and Communist Bureaucracy in the Ulbricht Era -- 5 The Old Guard under Attack: Three High-Tech Research Directors in the "Reform" Era and Beyond -- 6 Red Prometheus: Technological Fantasies in Popular Culture and Propaganda -- 7 Careerists and Conformists, Individualists and Technology Enthusiasts: Engineers and Computer Scientists in the Honecker Era -- 8 High Ambitions: Careerism and High-Tech Research during the New Cold War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-01236-7
    Language: English
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