Download or read book Technology and the Environment in State Socialist Hungary written by Viktor Pál and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously. Further, this book explains why this process was ultimately a failure. By exploring the environmental pre-history of communist Hungary before analyzing the economic development of the Kádár regime, Pál investigates how economic and environmental policies and technology transfer were negotiated between the official communist ideology and the global economic reality of capitalist markets. Pál argues that the modernization project of the Kádár regime (1956–1990) facilitated ecological consciousness – at both an individual and societal level – which provoked great social unrest when positive environmental impact was not achieved. Today, global issues of climate change, urban pollution, resource depletion, and overpopulation transcend political systems, but economic and environmental discourses varied greatly in the twentieth century. This volume is important reading for all those interested in economic and environmental history, as well as political science.

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Download or read book Economic Planning in Hungary Since 1938 written by Lóránd D. Schweng and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Information Bulletin written by Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth written by Paul R. Josephson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "I have seen the future, and it works." Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant -- figuratively and literally -- into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and Kim Il Sung of North Korea -- and other leaders -- joined Russia's Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in embracing big technology with a verve and conviction that rivaled the western world's. Paul R. Josephson here explores these utopian visions of technology -- and their unanticipated human and environmental costs. He examines the role of technology in communist plans and policies and the interplay between ideology and technological development. He shows that while technology was a symbol of regime legitimacy and an engine of progress, the changes it spurred were not unequivocally positive. Instead of achieving a worker's paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual -- and exhausting -- burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of communism's self-proclaimed glorious quest to "reach and surpass" the West. Josephson's intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system.

Download or read book Economic Survey of Europe in 1948 written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Official Records written by United Nations. Economic and Social Council and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special sessions.

Download or read book Europe in a Changing World written by M.J. Barber and published by Springer. This book was released on 1969-11-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuing the President s Authority to Waive the Trade Act Freedom of Emigration Provisions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Education in the Hungarian People s Republic written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Memoirs written by József Mindszenty and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These moving Memoirs reveal the full story of the legendary hero-priest József Mindszenty, who has come to be regarded as a symbol of Christian and national resistance to Communism. His brave, uncompromising leadership against the atheistic totalitarian government set the example and laid the foundation for the strong, outspoken Christian leadership and witness of the Church in Hungary today. Mindszenty was arrested, imprisoned, and physically and psychologically tortured by the Communist government. He spent eight years in solitary confinement. After the Hungarian uprising in 1956, he took refuge for fifteen years in the American embassy. This work is an extraordinary contribution to contemporary history and an eyewitness account of a Church and country under brutal Communist domination in the Cold War era. It also sets the record straight on the causes and circumstances of Mindszenty's departure from the embassy, his visit to the Vatican, and his deposition to the archiepiscopal office. Memoirs is an unforgettable reading experience.

Download or read book China Since 1919 written by Alan Lawrance and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook that tells the momentous history of China since 1919, mainly from the viewpoints of participants, including extracts from telegrams, speeches, memoirs, political statements and letters and poems.

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Download or read book The Great Surprise of the Small Transformation written by Akos Rona-Tas and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views the fall of Communism in Hungary as the result of the erosion of universal state employment and the development of an informal private sector during the time of Communist rule