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Academy and State Committee for Science and Technology (North Korea), 161
Academy of Sciences: of North Korea, 135, 138, 158–59
of the Soviet Union, 108, 208–10, 214, 255
Adamson, Roland, 100
Advance Rumley, 27
agriculture, 121, 123–24, 204–5, 220–22, 268, 288, 299
in Eastern Europe, 67, 70–71, 79, 82–83, 90–91
in North Korea, 121, 123–24, 141–45
and the peasantry, 11–12, 33, 55–56
and technological lag in, 27–29. See also collectivization; smychka
Akademgorodok, 206
Albania, 296
Aleksandrov, Anatolii, 255
Allis-Chalmers, 28
Allmanna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA), 52
All-Russian Society for the Protection of Nature (VOOP), 226, 229–30
All-Union conference on professional and technical education, 50
All-Union Congress of the Society of Friends of the Radio, 45
America, Incorporated, 9
American Relief Administration, 25, 291
Amerikanizm, 29
Amtorg Trading Corporation, 27
Andropov, Yuri, 252
Angara Design Bureau of Gidroenergoproekt, 218
Angara River, 53, 197, 215, 217–18
Anju Area Coal Mining Complex, 149
Anju irrigation project, 130
Apache Indians, 170
Arctic region, 43, 180, 190, 215, 242–44. See also Glavsevmorput
Arkhangelsk, Russia, 163–64, 171–72, 206, 256
early history of, 167–69
paper industry in, 240–43, 246–47, 261
Arkhangelsk Automatic Telephone Station, 42
Arkhangelskles (Archangelsk Forestry Enterprise), 242
Arkhangelsk-Moscow railroad, 245
Asenovgrad, 94
Asia, 127, 128, 139, 147, 174, 184
Atomenergo, 107
atomic energy. See nuclear power
Atomic Energy Commission, 181
Atommash, 9, 109, 175, 176–77, 206
Australia, 180
Azerbaidzhan, 211
Azhaev, Vasilii, 251
“backwardness” (or “lag”), technological and cultural, 91
as aspect of “civilization,” 10–11, 19
Trotsky’s views of, 37–45
in the USSR, 13, 17, 20, 24, 203, 242. See also smychka
Baikal, Lake, 199, 215, 218, 221, 222–23
Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), 208
Baku, 33
Barnaul, 214
Barnwell, South Carolina, 185
Bechtel, 188
Bekescsaba, 81
Belen nuclear power plant, 175
Beliaev, Alexander, 188–89
Bellona Foundation, 182
Beloiarsk Nuclear Power Station, 225
Belomor Aviation Detachment, 244
Belomor (Baltic-White Sea) Canal, 17, 56, 71, 106, 146, 168, 215–16, 247, 265
Berezniki, 200, 202, 208, 211, 213, 224–25
and Berlin Wall, 3, 66, 103, 159
Berman, Jakub, 89
Bierut, Boleslaw, 16, 69, 87, 89, 90, 93, 269
Bierut (Steel) Works, 105
“Big Ural” program, 206, 208, 222
Bikini atoll, 169–70
Bilibino, Chukotia, 171, 176, 179, 181
Bochum, Germany, 202
Bohemia, 71
Bohunice, 110
Bolsheviks, 10, 13, 203, 205, 236–37, 291–92
and technological utopianism, 21–61
and the “women’s question,” 267, 271, 277–78, 280–81, 298
and worker safety, 240. See also Communist Party
Bong Han theory, 157
Bonnell, Victoria, 288
Borst, Lyell, 181
Boston, Massachusetts, 228
Brandenburg, 99
Bratsk, 78
Brest-Litovsk, peace negotiations in 1918, 38
Brezhnev, Leonid, 6, 78, 178, 220–22, 226, 248, 252
Britain, 41
Bronx, New York, 273
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 181
Brussels, 180
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 68
Bucharest, 74
Buck v. Bell, 274
Budapest, Hungary, 11, 17, 69, 70, 73, 76, 82, 83, 86, 114
Bukharin, Nikolai, 37, 49, 55, 61
Bulgaria, 11, 14, 16, 17, 65–69, 77, 93–97, 109, 296
and nuclear power, 174–75, 177
Bulgarian Komsomol (Communist Youth League), 96
Buriatia, 214
Bush, G. W., administration of, 183, 185, 211, 233, 259, 261–62
CANDU nuclear reactor, 109
Carson, Rachel, 223
Caterpillar, Incorporated, 27, 28
Caucasian regional party committee, 54
Caucasus, 51
Ceausescu, Nicolae, 109–10, 267, 269, 273
Central Administration for Construction of Minsk (Glavminskstroi), 112
Central Asia, 15, 43, 220, 281
Central Asian Water Trust (Sredazvodkhoz), 28
Central Asia Water Melioration and Cotton Institute (Sredazgiprovodkhlopok), 29
Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, 139, 149
Central Institute for Nuclear Research, 109
Central Research Institute for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 108
Cernavoda nuclear power station, 110
Cheka (Extraordinary Committee), 30
Cheliabinsk (Ozersk), Russia, 183, 202, 206, 211, 213–14, 218, 228
and industrial deserts, 199–200
Cheliabinsk Province, 199, 201
Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, 27, 28
Chernobyl, 14, 110, 165, 172–73, 175–76, 190, 256, 271
China, 4, 123, 128, 133, 140, 147, 159–60, 199, 275
environmental problems, 199
Juche, 140
sterilization practices, 275
Chita, 214
Chkalovsk, 210
Chollima Kangson Steel Works, 151
Chollima Movement (North Korean Stakhanovism), 150–54
Chongdong Mine, 131
Churchill, Winston, 68
Cohen, G. A., 8
cold war, 4, 7, 89, 129, 209–13, 214, 225
collectivization (of agriculture), 10, 13–14, 56, 116, 268, 270, 271, 288, 299
in Eastern Europe, 67, 70–71, 78–79, 82–84, 87–88, 95, 204
in North Korea, 121–24, 141–45
to transform peasantry, 20, 28. See also agriculture Columbia River, 53, 170, 183
Cominform, 67
Comintern (Third Communist International), 67, 70, 90
Committee for Mobilization of Resources of the Ural Region for the War Effort, 210
Committee for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces (KEPS), 203
Communist Party (of the Soviet Union), 6, 71, 84, 113, 125, 145, 190, 246, 247, 299
programs and conferences, 6, 29, 48, 93, 214, 223. See also Bolsheviks; Korean Workers’ Party; Polish Workers’ Party
Communist Youth League. See Komsomol
Comstock, Anthony, 273
Comstock Act of 1873, 273
Concessions Committee, 38
Congress of Soviet Writers (1956), 223
Consumer Product Safety Commission, 233
Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON), 90, 98, 106, 107, 108, 122, 133, 174
Council of People’s Commissars, 279
Csepel Island, Budapest, Hungary, 86
Czechoslovakia, 65–67, 76–79, 118, 296
and Danube dam, 216–17
nuclear power in, 107–10
Czestochowa, 105
Dalstroi (Far Eastern Construction Organization), 247, 252
Danube Cement and Lime Works, 73
Danube River, 83, 94, 109, 175, 177, 216
Darwinism, 275
DDR. See German Democratic Republic
Deaf Smith County, Texas, 188
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. See Korean Workers’ Party; North Korea
Dimitrov, Georgi, 16, 69, 93–94, 95
Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria, 11, 65, 66, 71, 79, 92–97
Dnieprostroi and Dniepr hydroelectric power station (DnieproGES), 26, 54, 56, 58, 71, 92
Dollezhal, Nikolai, 190
Don Basin (Donbas), 33, 39–40, 49, 57, 104, 150, 203
Dresden, Germany, 102
Druksiai, Lake, 111
Dubna, Russia. See Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Dudinka, 181
Dvinoles (Dvina Forestry Trust), 240–41
Dysnai Festival, 176
Dzerzhinski, Felix, 30, 36, 49, 224
East and East Central Europe, 11–12, 14, 16, 216, 266, 268, 270–71, 294
technological experience in, 65–119. See also Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; German Democratic Republic; Hungary; Poland; Romania
East Germany. See German Democratic Republic
Efrimov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus, 108
Eichmann, Adolph, 69
Eighth Congress of Soviets (1921), 33
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 107
Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, 15, 66, 71, 78–79, 84, 98–103
Elbe River, 14
electrification, 31–33, 44, 47, 56, 94, 95, 143, 250, 271, 272
Engels, Friedrich, 8, 10, 271, 283, 298
England, 3, 4, 10, 71, 76, 186, 195, 203, 211, 234, 235, 269
environmental issues and socialist technology, 20, 37–38, 105–6, 128–29, 145–59, 193–231
eugenics, 273–75
European Union, 110, 175, 176, 179, 186
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), 234
Federal Security Service (FSB), 189
Federal Service of Public Safety, 173
Fencsik, Gabor, 85
floating nuclear power stations. See nuclear power
Ford, Henry, 9, 22, 23, 26, 28, 46, 177
Fordism, 12, 24, 25, 27, 46, 73, 117
France, 10, 22, 25, 76, 115, 173, 186, 203, 235
Fullop-Miller, Rene, 22, 24, 61
Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam system, 216–17
Gary, Indiana, 26, 71, 202, 207, 238. See also Magnitogorsk
Gastev, Aleksei, 21, 22, 34, 36. See also Taylorism
gender and technology, 7, 15, 265–99
General Electric Corporation, 26
German Democratic Republic (DDR), 65–67, 78–79, 93, 118, 211–13
nuclear power, 109. See also Eisenhüttenstadt
Germany, National Socialist, 211–13
Gidroproekt (All-Union Hydrological Design Institute), 216
Ginzburg, S. Z., 213
Gipromez (Leningrad Design Institute for the Metallurgical Industry), 26, 90
Gladkov, Fedor, 251
Glavleszapchast, 242
Glavnauka (Main Administration for Science of the Commissariat of the Enlightenment), 36
Glavsevmorput (Administration of the Northern Sea Route), 168, 242–43
Gliwice Canal, 90
GOELRO (State Plan for the Electrification of Russia), 32, 33, 51, 166, 207, 215
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 178, 201, 222, 233, 252, 254–56, 295
Gorky (city), 178
Gorky Automobile Factory, 26
Gosatomnadzor, 173
Gosplan (State Planning Administration), 32, 49, 50, 74, 133, 206
Gosstandart (State Committee on Standards), 74
Gostroi (USSR State Committee on Construction), 74, 193
Graftiiu, Count G. O., 52
Grand Coulee Dam, 118, 195, 196
Great Break (velikii perelom), 55, 132, 204, 208
Great Plains, 46
Griefswald nuclear power station (German Democratic Republic), 109
Griswold v. Connecticut, 267
Gulag (Stalinist labor camps), 34, 163, 167–68, 172, 197, 200, 204, 215, 247–48, 252
Gulag-like labor camps in North Korea, 140. See also Belomor Canal
Gulf War, 160
Hanford, Washington, 183, 188, 218
Hitler, Adolf, 102, 163, 167, 171, 212
Hodmezovasarhely, 81
Holmes, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell, 274
Hortobagy Plain, 105
Hrubin, F., 79
Hughes, Thomas, 118
Hungary, 14, 16, 65–69, 76–79, 81–85, 293, 296
environmental issues in, 105–6, 216–17
nuclear power in, 107–9, 173–74, 177
Huta Katowice, 92
Huta Warszawa, 92
Hwanghae Iron Works, 131, 151, 154
Iagrinlag (Iagry Island Camp), 163, 169
Idaho Reactor Testing Station, 181
Ignalina nuclear power station (Lithuania), 110, 111, 176
Ilf, Ilya, 26
Imperial (Tsarist) Academy of Sciences, 203
industrial deserts, 6, 15, 193–232
Industrial Party Affair, 57, 58, 60, 204, 239
industrial safety. See worker safety
Institute of Applied Mineralogy, 208
Institute of the Ecological Problems of the North, 172
Institute of Ecology of Flora and Fauna in Zarechyi (IERZh), 225, 229
Institute of Geology, 210
Institute of Nuclear Physics, 108
Institute of Nuclear Problems, 107
Institute of Physical-Engineering Problems of the North, 214
Institute of the Scientific Organization of Labor, 238
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 258–59
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 107, 261
International Harvester, 27, 28
International Red Cross, 86
Ioffe, Abram, 207
Ipatieff, Vladimir, 49–50
Iran, 160
Iraq, 160
Irbit, 211
Isagorka, 163
Izhorsk Metallurgical Factory, 212
Jangyonho Fish Farm, 150
Japan, 124, 127, 158, 159, 160, 179
John Deere and Company, 27–28
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), 106, 107, 108, 122
Juche, 122, 123, 137, 138, 143, 153, 155, 157–61
J. V. Stalin Iron Smelting Plant, 100
Kaganovich, Lazar, 236
Kahn, Albert, 27
Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, 69
Kaisiadorys, 111
Kaluga Province, 180
Kamchatka Peninsula, 181
Kangnam, 154
Kapsan Copper Mine, 131
Karachai, Lake, 219
Kaunas Reservoir, 111
KGB (Commission on Government Safety), 122, 173, 189. See also Cheka; NKVD
Khabarovsk, 127
Khalturino, 53
Khanti, 200
Kharkiv Tractor Factory, 27–28
Khrushchev, Nikita, 6, 42, 93, 102, 121–22, 154
and de-Stalinization, 124, 220–21, 247
and environmentalism, 47
and Hungary, 86
Secret Speech, 93
“women’s question” and consumer goods, 290–96
Kim, Dr. Bong Han, 157
Kim, Il Sung, 7, 14, 16, 20, 121–61, 196, 269
Kim, Jong Il, 121, 124, 149–50, 160
Kim Chaek Iron Works, 131
Kim Il Sung State University, 135, 159
Kirienko, Sergei, 164, 165, 173–74
Kirov (Ekaterinburg), 226
Kirov, Sergei, 4, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 61
Kirovgrad, 214
Kola Nuclear Power Station, 172
Kola Peninsula, 167, 171, 172, 207
Kola Scientific Center, 178, 207
Kollontai, Alexandra, 275, 276–80, 291, 298
Kolyma, 197
Komsomol (Communist Youth League), 176, 213, 229
Komsomol’sk, 252
Korber, Lili, 297
Korean Peninsula, 14, 122, 123, 127, 128, 147, 159
Korean State Planning Committee, 133
Korean War, 122–23, 126, 128, 131–32, 135, 141, 156
Korean Workers’ Party (also Workers’ Party of Korea), 122–23, 128–29, 136, 138, 141, 143, 157, 161
Kosciuszko, 105
Kotlas, Russia, 249
Kotlasles (Kotlas Forestry Trust), 240–42
Kozloduy nuclear power station, 109, 175
Krakow, Poland, 69, 90, 91, 108
Krasnaia Zaria (Red Dawn) Factory, 42
Krasnouralsk, Russia, 214–15
Krasnyi Putilovets (Tractor Factory), 28, 51
Krzhizhanovsky, Gleb, 32, 33, 207
Krzna River, 106
Kuibyshev, Valarian, 49, 50, 51, 61, 207
Kuibyshevgestroi, 197
Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Station, 118, 145, 195, 228
Kumgangsan Power Station, 148
Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy, 69, 181
Kurdzhali, 94
Kursk, 212
Kyshtym, 214
Lamarckian views and theories, 59, 137, 221, 272–73, 275–76
Laser Research Institute, 159
Las Vegas, Nevada, 187
Lenin, Vladimir, 7, 10, 24, 38, 48, 56, 73, 166, 272–73, 277, 279
and Amerikanizm, 25–29
and technology, science, and industry, 29–34, 36–42, 49–51, 215, 236–37
Leningrad, 11, 17, 28, 51–52, 108, 113, 135, 163, 186, 207, 212, 245, 257, 297
Leningrad Design Institute for the Metallurgical Industry (Gipromez), 26
Leningrad nuclear power station (LAES), 185–86
Leningrad Physical Technical Institute, 207
Leningrad State University, 135
Lenin nuclear icebreaker, 180
Lenin (Danube) Steelworks, 83, 90
Leonov, Leonid, 222–23
Leopold, Aldo, 223
Lezhsk, 249
Libya, 160
Liebknecht, Kurt, 99
Lilienthal, David, 20
Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, 178
Lithuania, 65, 69, 110, 111, 176, 217
Lorentz, Pare, 46
Lowell, Massachusetts, 199
lumpenproletariat, 83
Lunacharsky, Anatoli, 30
Lysenko, Trofim, and Lysenkosim, 59, 126, 137, 157, 161, 221
machine tractor stations (MTSs), 95, 204, 289
MacKenzie, Donald, 8
Magdeburg, 109
Magnitogorsk, 26, 54–56, 61, 66, 71, 78, 94, 199, 200, 208, 238
and Nowa Huta, 92
and Sztalinvaros, 83–84
and worker safety, 212–14
Maiak nuclear fuel plant, 183, 218, 219
Maine Yankee power station, 184–85
Malenkov, Georgii, 293
Mamaev, S. A., 229–30
Marbas lignite mines, 96
Marcuse, Herbert, 8
Mariupol, Ukraine, 212
Marshall Plan, 70, 90, 107, 118
Martin Machine Works, 71
Marx, Karl, 4, 8, 10, 25, 271, 298
Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, 5, 59, 81, 118, 203, 268, 275
in the East European experience, 70–75
in the North Korean experience, 135, 139–41
and technology in modern society, 7–8, 61–62. See also Lenin, Vladimir; Stalin, Joseph; Trotsky, Leon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 259
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 29
McKee and Company, 26
Mensheviks, 10, 33, 38, 58, 277
Metrostroi, 197
Mexico, 37
Mezen, 249
Miass, 209, 211, 213, 214, 227
Military Revolutionary Committee, 38
MinAtom, 184
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), 235, 261–62
Mining Institute, 214
Ministry of Building and Building Materials Industry, 74
Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Response, 256, 257
Ministry of Culture and Art, 88
Ministry of Light Industry (North Korea), 136
Ministry of Means of Communication, 246
Ministry of Natural Resources, 230
Ministry of Public Health, 94
Ministry of Reconstruction, 98
Minsk, Belarus, 112
Mississippi River, 187
Mochovce, 110
Moldsel’les (Moldova Forestry Trust), 248
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 167
Molotov-Ribentropp Non-Aggression Treaty of 1939, 67, 167
Molotovsk (Perm), 167, 169, 210, 211, 218
Molotovsk Railroad, 172
Moscow, 76, 93, 99, 102, 106–7, 113, 154, 251, 256, 283, 295
skyscrapers, 89
subway system, 197
Moscow Canal, 106
Moscow City Heating Authority, 260–61
Moscow Metro, 56, 71, 197, 236
Moscow State University, 135, 229
Moscow Trade Union Theater, 58
Mosgidep Design Institute, 217–18
Murmansk, 15, 168, 172, 178, 180, 181
muzhik, 11, 24, 25, 31, 33, 54, 55
Nader, Ralph, 258
Nagy, Imre, 82
Nagymaros, Hungary, 217
Nakhodka, 168
Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, 144
Nam River, 147
Narian Mar, 249
Narkomtrud (Commissariat of Labor), 238
Narkomzdrav (Commissariat of Health), 238, 249
National Environmental Protection Act (1969), 220
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 259, 262
National Socialist (Nazi) Germany, 76, 126, 146, 209
National Socialist Labor Party (Nazi Party), 89, 157, 225, 228
NATO, 117
Navajo Indians, 170
Nenets, 169, 170, 171, 200, 250
New Economic Mechanism, 68
New Economic Policy (NEP), 41, 43, 48, 49, 61, 203, 218, 266, 292
New Hampshire, 159
New Orleans, Louisiana, 190
New York, 28, 29, 160, 236, 292
Nikel, Russia, 200
Nitrogen Engineering Corporation, 28
Nizhnii Tagil, 199, 200, 212, 213, 214
NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs), 213, 248. See also Cheka; KGB
Norilsk, 66, 90, 181, 200, 247
Northern Dvina River, 163
Northern Railroad, 246
Northern Rivers Steamship Authority, 240, 243
North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), 4, 5, 14, 16, 20, 21, 62, 121–61, 196–99, 231, 266, 269, 271
North Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, 158
North Korean People’s Army, 127, 153–54
NOT. See Scientific Organization of Labor
Novokuznetsk, 199
Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, 209
Nowa Huta, Poland, 11, 65, 71, 78–79, 84, 88–92, 104
in Eastern Europe, 106–11
Nydqvist och Holm AB (NOHAB), 52
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 181, 183, 218
Obninsk, 180
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), 235, 262
Oder-Spree Canal, 99
Office for the Supervision of Aesthetic Production (BNEP), 88
Okha, Sakhalin Island, 252
Omsk, 214
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 216
Orangchon Power Station, 150
Orangchon River, 147
Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, 213
Orenburg Research Institute of Conservation and Rational Use of Natural Resources, 229
Paks nuclear power station, Hungary, 109, 110, 175
Palekh, style of art, 217–18
peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs), 178
Pechora River Steamship Administration, 253
Pennsylvania, 202
Pentele, 85
People’s Republic of China, 134, 140, 231
Permafrost Institute, 214
Perm Province, 199
Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia), 51, 167, 173, 256
Petrograd, 32
Petrov, Evgenii, 26
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 29, 292
Physical Chemical Institute, 208
Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, 107
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 29, 202, 228
Plan for the Transformation of Nature, 177, 218
Planned Parenthood Federation, 273
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 94
Poland, 65–69, 116, 118, 269, 293
energy policy, 104–10
and peasantry, 90–91. See also Nowa Huta
Poliarnye Zori nuclear power station, 172
Polish “Hydroprojekt” institute, 106
Polish Workers’ Party, 88–90
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 189
Potemkin, 141
Poznan, 93
Primorsk, 249
Pripiat, 255
proletarian aesthetics, 73–79, 112–19
Proletarian Culture movement (Proletkult), 22–23, 30, 59
P/S (Portsmouth/Severodvinsk) Connection, 189
Puducah, Kentucky, 183
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, 234
Putin, Vladimir, 164, 166, 183–84, 230
disbands environmental protection agency, 230
and nuclear power, 172–74, 189
worker safety, 253, 256, 258, 260, 261
Pyongyang, North Korea, 11, 15, 123, 128, 141, 148, 155, 156
Pyongyang-Kaesong Expressway, 156
rabkor, 23
Raduga, 29
Rakoczi, Prince Francis II, 86
Rasputin, Valentin, 223
Reagan, Ronald, 258
Red (Soviet) Army, 4, 13, 168, 171, 281, 288
Trotsky’s role in, 38–40
and World War II, 211–12
Red Nail-Maker, 51
Revolution of 1905, 38
River Rouge Plant, 26, 27, 28, 46
Romania, 14, 67–68, 112, 115, 268–69, 296. See also Ceausescu, Nicolae
RosAtom, 14, 164–66, 171–74, 177–78, 183–84, 189
Rostov nuclear power plant, 177
Rudnev, Lev, 89
Russian Revolution, 7, 25, 298
and technological change, 21–22, 30–32, 61
and “women’s question,” 277
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 38
Ryesong River, 147
Sanger, Margaret, 273
Sao Francisco River, 53
SARRPN (Free Association for the Development and Dissemination of the Positive Sciences), 11
Schenectady, New York, 26
Scientific Organization of Labor (NOT), 34, 35, 36, 267. See also Taylorism
Scientific-Technical Department of the Supreme Economic Council (NTO), 36, 37, 38, 49, 50
Sellafield, United Kingdom, 218
Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, 46
Seoul National University, 158
Sevdvinlag (Northern Dvina Labor Camp), 247, 248
Severodvinsk, 163–65, 171–72, 176–79, 182, 188–91, 206
Severomorsk, 15
Sevkabel, 42
Sevkraizdravotdel, 249
Sevles Forestry Trust, 242
Sevmash (Northern Shipbuilding Enterprise), 182, 189, 191
Sevzryvsplav (Northern Explosives River Lumber Float Organization), 245
Shakhty (Mining) Affair, 57, 60, 239
Sheepscot River, 184
Sholokhov, Mikhail, 223
Siberia, 14, 46, 52–53, 112, 170, 208
environmental degradation, 221–22
and Gulag, 197
postwar development, 214–15
“Siberia” development program, 222
and World War II, 212
Sinclair, Upton, 234
Skoda Works, 110
Slavutich, Ukraine, 256
smychka (the “tie” between city and the countryside), 42–49, 56, 62, 97, 142, 143
Snow, Sir C. P., 226
Society of Electrical Engineers, 52
Sofia, Bulgaria, 11, 17, 69, 93
Sokolskii Iron Works, 209
“Solidarity,” 109
Solikamsk, 224–25
Solovki Islands, 247
Songjin Steel Works, 130
Soopoong Hydroelectric Power Station, 128, 147
Sorya, Han, 153
Sosnovy Bor, 185
Soviet State Committee for the Construction Industry. See Gostroi
Soviet Union. See USSR
Speer, Albert, 212
Sredazgiprovodkhlopok, 29
Sredazvodkhoz, 28
Sredneuralsk, 214
Stakhanovism, 68, 92–93, 113, 124, 150–54. See also Chollima Movement; Taylorism
Stalin, Joseph, 4, 34, 37, 87, 99, 137, 163, 166–67, 212, 221, 273
collectivization and the peasantry, 30, 129, 141–45, 273
Gulag, 163
rapid
transformation of nature, 148, 177
view of technology, 9, 21, 49–62
“women’s question,” 267, 277–78, 281–82, 284–85
worker safety, 236–38, 246–49. See also Stalinism
Stalin Allee, 102
“Stalin” Chemical Factory, 96
Stalin Constitution (1936), 284, 287
Stalingradstroi, 112
Stalingrad Tractor Factory, 27, 54
Stalinism, 13–15, 66–68, 71–72, 299
denounced by Khrushchev, 93
in Eastern Europe, 77–80, 102–3, 118–19
in North Korea, 121–27, 141–46, 160
Stalin Nitrogen Fertilizer Factory, 94
Stalin Palace of Culture and Science, 89
Stalinstadt. See Eisenhüttenstadt
State Committee for Science and Technology (North Korea), 135
State Plan for the Electrification of Russia. See GOELRO State Planning Administration. See Gosplan
Sterlitamak, 211
Stites, Richard, 22
Sunchon Vinalon Complex, 158
Supreme Economic Council (VSNKh), 36, 49
Sverdlovsk, 199, 210, 212–13, 218–19, 224–28, 230
Sverdlovsk Forestry Institute, 229
Syktyvkar, 249
Syria, 160
Szeged, 81
Sztalinvaros (Stalin City), Hungary, 11, 66, 79, 83–86, 92
Taean Electrical Machinery Factory and management systems, 132, 153
Tamm, Igor, 178–79
Taylorism, 12, 22–25, 31, 34–35, 132, 195, 238, 267. See also Chollima Movement; Scientific Organization of Labor; Stakhanovism
technological determinism, 7, 8
technological utopianism, 11–12, 16, 18–63, 94, 99, 200
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Tennessee River Valley, 20, 53, 195
Third Party Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 6
Three Mile Island, 190
Timiriazev, Klement, 11
Timiriazev Agronomy Institute, 44
Tiumen SibrybNIIproekt (Siberian Fisheries Research Institute), 229
Tocantins River, 53
tokamak fusion reactors, 10
Trans-Siberian railroad, 25
Trotsky, Leon, 4, 73, 127, 168
general views of technology, 9, 21, 23–24, 33–52, 61–62
technology as panacea, 7, 13, 16, 122–23
Tsektran (Central Administration of Railways), 38
Tsimliansk and Tsimlianskoe Reservoir, 177, 252
Turin, Viktor, 46
Turksib (Turkestano-Siberian) Railway, 46
TVA. See Tennessee Valley Authority
Ubong Hydroelectric Power Station, 147
Ujpest, 86
Ukraine, 91, 174–75, 204, 206, 212–13, 217, 297
Union of Architects, Soviet, 88
United Auto Workers (UAW) v. Johnson Controls, 287
United States, 40, 42, 76, 123, 124, 143, 158–60, 198
and “Atoms for Peace,” 107
and environmental issues, 211, 220, 234–35
as example for socialist technology, 10, 12–13, 26, 29, 33, 40–41
Korean War, 127–28
Marshall Plan, 70
and nuclear energy, 163–70, 179–90, 218
and technocracy, 9
and “women’s question,” 266–67, 286–87, 293–95
and worker safety, 257–58. See also Amerikanizm; Fordizm; Taylorism; Tennessee Valley Authority
University of Utah, 181
Ural Electrochemical Combine, 218
Uralelektrotiazhmash, 224
Ural Energy Ferrous Metallurgy Combine, 224
Ural Forestry Experimental Station, 229
Uralmashzavod, 227
Uralmekhanbor, 208
Ural Mountain region, 15, 39, 40, 173
as industrial desert, 224–28
industrial history, 202–12, 230–31
nuclear power in, 218–19
and pollution, 199–201
Ural Physical Technical Institute, 208
Ural Research Institute of the Economy, 228
Ural Research Institute of Water Resources, 228–29
Ural Scientific Center (earlier, Ural “branch”), 214, 222, 229
Ural Scientific Research Chemical Institute, 208
Ural Wagon Factory (Uralvagonzavod), 212, 224
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 47, 148
U.S. Bureau of Mines, 234
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 28, 47
U.S. Congress, 187
U.S. Department of Defense, 220
U.S. Department of Energy, 187–88
U.S. Department of the Interior, 230
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 158, 185
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 185, 188
U.S. Supreme Court, 267, 274, 287
USS Savannah, 182
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), 3–6, 9–10, 155
impact on Eastern Europe, 14, 16, 67–71, 79, 81, 88, 89, 104–6
and environmental issues, 193–231
and gender and technology, 265–97
and North Korea, 122, 124, 126, 145–47
and Nowa Huta, 91–92
and nuclear power, 106–11, 159–91
and proletarian aesthetics, 112–14
technological experience in, 20–62
and worker safety, 233–63
Verkh-Isetek Factory, 213
Verkhovazhsk, 249
Veszprem, 81
Vilegodsk, 249
Visaginas, 110, 111, 176. See also Ignalina nuclear power station
Vitkovice Steelworks, 71
Vizgin, Volodya, 217
Vladivostok, 181
Volga-Don Canal, 109, 145, 177
Volga River, 25, 145, 176–77, 196, 197, 216, 252
Volgodonsk, 78, 92, 109, 176, 177, 206
Volkhovsk and Volkhovsk hydroelectric power station, 51–53, 61
Vologda, 249
Vorkuta, 197
Wajda, Andrzej, 93
War Communism, 35, 38, 43, 168, 203, 207, 291
Warsaw, 11, 17, 74, 76, 88, 89, 114
Warsaw Pact Treaty Organization, 106, 117
Washington (state), 53, 170, 183
Washington, D.C., 160
Watertown, Massachusetts, 35
Wells, H. G., 56
West Sea Barrage, 148
White Sea, 163, 164, 167, 172, 242, 246
Wiscassett, Maine, 185
Witte, Count Sergei, 24
worker safety, 5–8, 13, 15, 29, 66, 72, 74, 78, 104, 115, 199, 206, 233–63
Workers’ Opposition movement, 21, 48, 277
World’s Fair (1958), 180
World War I (Great War), 10, 31–32, 39, 44, 48, 52, 61, 167, 195, 203, 252, 266
World War II, 21, 225, 230–31, 245, 266, 286, 290
Eastern Europe and, 67, 79, 87, 98, 117
impact on Ural region industry, 209–13
North Korea and, 127, 141, 147
Yakut Center of the Academy of Sciences, 214
Yakutia, 214
Yarenskii Logging Company, 298
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, 187–88
Yugoslavia, 67
Zamiatyn, Evgenii, 30
Zhe, Fang Li, 134
Zhenotdel (Women’s Department of the Communist Party), 277, 282, 291, 298, 299
Zhuk, Sergei Iakovlevich, 216, 247
Zhuk Gidroproekt, 106, 216, 228, 247
Zvezdochka shipyard, 182
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