In search of the socialist artefact: Technology and ideology in East Germany, 1945-1962

German History

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-239

  Stokes, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0040543751     PISSN: 02663554     EISSN: 1477089X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gh/15.2.221     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Langdon Winner, 'Do Artifacts Have Politics?' pp. 19-39 of Winner, The Whale and the Reactor (Chicago, 1986)
2. Winner's arguments in this regard overlap to some extent with actor-network theory. See Wiebe Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems (Cambridge, Mass., 1987)
3. especially the essay by Michel Callon, 'Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis', pp. 83-103
4. See, for instance, Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (New York, 1965)
5. Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York, 1984)
6. David Blackbourn, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a 19th Century German Village (Oxford, 1993)
7. For the Soviet impact on industry in the occupation period, see Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 (Cambridge, Mass., 1995)
8. Bruce Parrott, Politics and Technology in the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Mass., 1983), p. 5
9. Rainer Karlsch, Allein bezahlt? Die Reparationsleistungen der SBZ/DDR 1945-53 (Berlin, 1993)
10. Ulrich Albrecht, Andreas Heinemann-Grüder and Arend Wellmann, Die Spezialisten. Deutsche Naturwissenschaftler und Techniker in der Sowjetunion nach 1945 (Berlin, 1992)
11. Burghard Ciesla, 'Die Spezialistentransfer in die UdSSR und seine Auswirkungen in der SBZ und DDR', Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, B 49/50 (1993), 24-31
12. André Steiner, 'The Return of German "Specialists" from the Soviet Union to the German Democratic Republic: Integration and Impact', pp. 119-30 of Burghard Ciesla and Matthias Judt (eds.), Technology Transfer out of Germany after 1945 (Amsterdam, 1996)
13. Heinrich Rau, Die führende Rolle der Industrie beim Aufbau des Sozialismus und der neue Kurs in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Berlin, 1953)
14. Ibid
15. Paul Josephson, '"Projects of the Century" in Soviet History: Large-Scale Technologies from Lenin to Gorbachev', Technology and Culture, 39 (1995), 519-59, especially p. 522
16. Rau, Die führende Rolle der Industrie, pp. 74-9
17. E.g. 'Was ist Weltniveau?', Maschinenbautechnik, 6 (1957), 288-9
18. Robert W. Dean, West German Trade with the East: The Political Dimension (New York, 1974), pp. 103-4
19. See Stokes, 'Autarky, Ideology, and Technological Lag', p. 42
20. Ulrich Albrecht and Randolph Nikutta, Die sowjetische Rüstungsindustrie (Opladen, 1989), p. 38
21. D. Eleanor Westney, Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan (Cambridge, Mass., 1987), esp. pp. 5-6, 9-32
22. 'Information über den Nachbau', p. 7
23. For (sometimes amusing) aspects of the Meiji Japanese experience in this regard, see for instance H. Paul Varley, Japanese Culture (3rd edition) (Honolulu, 1984), especially pp 207-8
24. John L. Burbidge, The Introduction of Group Technology (London, 1975). Burbidge points out that the term Group Technology 'came into the English language in translations from Russian works dealing with the technological aspects of machining families of parts. Group Technology is now more important as a managerial break-through than as a technological revolution' (p. 23)
25. Bernard Bellon, Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers, 1903-1945 (New York, 1990), pp. 160-3, 210
26. Gary Herrigel, Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 150-3
27. Burbidge, The Introduction of Group Technology, p. 32
28. On flexible production, or flexible specialization, in history, see Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide (New York, 1984)
29. Herrigel, Industrial Constructions
30. On Group Technology in general, see Sergei P. Mitrofanov, Wissenschaftliche Grundlage der Gruppenbearbeitung (Berlin, 1960)
31. John Grayson, 'Innovation at the Soviet Plant Level: The Case of Group Technology (1950-1970)', pp. 101-26 in Ronald Amann and Julian Cooper (eds.), Industrial Innovation in the Soviet Union (New Haven, 1982)
32. VEB Zeiss Jena (Haupttechnologe Gen. Blume), 'Die Mitrofanow-Methode und ihre Einführung im VEB Carl Zeiss Jena', 30 Sept. 1960, pp. 2-3, SAPMO BArch DY30/IV 2/604/41
33. Raymond G. Stokes, 'Chemistry and the Chemical Industry under Socialism', in Dieter Hoffmann and Kristie Macrakis (eds.), Science under Socialism (Cambridge, Mass., forthcoming)
34. For more on Soviet-bloc technological culture, see, for instance, C.C. Gallagher, 'The Influence of Different Economic Systems on Detailed Technology', Soviet Studies, 26 (1974), 604-9
35. Josephson, '"Projects of the Century" in Soviet History', pp. 520, 559; quotations from p. 520
36. Raymond Hutchings, Soviet Science, Technology, Design: Interaction and Convergence (London and New York, 1976), p. 11
37. Georg C. Bertsch, Ernst Hedler and Mathias Dietz, SED. Schönes Einheits Design. Stunning Eastern Design. Savoir éviter le design (Cologne, 1994)