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9780674354371

The Ghost of the Executed Engineer

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674354371

  • ISBN10:

    0674354370

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-02-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue xi
1. The Radical Engineer
1(22)
2. From Political Prisoner to Soviet Consultant
23(26)
3. Early Soviet Industrialization
49(18)
4. Technocracy, Soviet Style
67(14)
5. Contemporary Engineering Failures
81(18)
Epilogue: The Ghost of Peter Palchinsky 99(10)
Notes 109(14)
Acknowledgments 123(2)
Index 125

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