Lonely Ideas
Can Russia Compete?
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2013
Summary
An expert investigates Russia’s long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled “Made in Russia”? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders’ ambitions to create a knowled…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262019798 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262019795 |
| Author: | Loren Graham |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 21mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
succinct and devastating… It should be required reading in the Kremlin.
succinct and devastating… It should be required reading in the Kremlin.
—Joshua Lustig, Current HistoryThis short, engaging book will please not only historians of science and technology, who know Graham’s work well, but anyone interested in the social and economic conditions favorable to cultivating new, globally competitive industries.
—Chronicle of Higher EducationLonely Ideas is an excellent, brief overview of the qualified successes and costly failures involved in Russian modernization. It should become the standard volume for introducing lay readers to the growing field fo Russian science and technology studies.
—The Russian ReviewAbout The Author
Loren Graham
Loren Graham, often described as the leading scholar on Russian science and technology outside that country, is the author of The Ghost of the Executed Engineer and other books. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at MIT and Research Scholar at the Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies at Harvard.
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