One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12858813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Guth (0000-0003-2238-9574, University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-376 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1611-8944 • E-ISSN: 2631-9764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.17104/1611-8944-2015-3-355 |
| OpenAlex | W2529034079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution The present article focuses on the «Scientific-Technical Revolution» (STR), tracing the Soviet leadership's bid for the future throughout the post-Stalinist period and examining how it came to be challenged by the scientific-technical and literary intelligentsias of the country. I argue that what was claimed to be the main strength of official Soviet thought on the future – its holistic character – was also its most serious limiting factor. Unlike Western futures studies, which assumed a plurality of possible futures and stressed the need to strategically choose between them on the basis of preferences and values, orthodox Soviet theoreticians framed the prospective development of mankind in terms of a single future that demanded an all-encompassing vision. The resulting Soviet future discourse was unwieldy and restrictive, and left the Soviet Union ill-prepared to deal with the onslaught of «reflexive modernity» that reached the country in the 1970s
Character (mathematics · Economic history · Economics · Futures contract · Futures studies · Industrial Revolution · Limiting · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Engineering · History · Law
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La technoscience nucléaire soviétique
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Who Is the Most Progressive Force in Society? Discussions about Workers and Intellectuals in Czech Sociology in the 1960s in the Context of the Development of Soviet Marxism-Leninism
State of the Field
Soviet Attempts to Offer Material Incentives to Workers in the Chemical Industry (1965–1970)
Whoever launches the biggest Sputnik has solved the problems of society? Technology and futurism for Western European social democrats and communists in the 1950s
Authority Claims Situating Socialist Science Studies in the GDR
The Politics of Time and State Identity in the German Democratic Republic
Space and time in the socialist countryside
Administrative Monsters
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |