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Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 /

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 scienc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Augustine, Dolores L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Colección:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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