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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology

  1. General
  2. Land and marine transportation
  3. Air transportation
  4. The space program
  5. Energy conversion
  6. Nuclear industry
  7. Mining industry
  8. Chemical industry
  9. Computing and cybernetics
  10. Military technology
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: General

Sources in English:

  1. Amann, Ronald, and Julian Cooper, eds. Industrial Innovation in the Soviet Union (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).
  2. Andrle, Vladimir. Workers in Stalin's Russia: Industrialization and Social Change in a Planned Economy (New York: St. Martin's press, 1988).
  3. Bailes, Kendall. "Alexei Gastev and the Soviet Controversy over Taylorism, 1918-1924," Soviet Studies 29 (1977): 373-94.
  4. Bailes, Kendall. Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia. 1917-1941 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978).
  5. Balzer, Harley D. "Engineers: The Rise and Decline of a Social Myth," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 141-67.
  6. Cooper, Julian. "The Scientific and Technical Revolution in Soviet Theory," in Frederic J. Fleron, ed., Technology and Communist Future (New York: Praeger, 1977).
  7. Davies, R.W. The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929-1930: The Industrialization of Soviet Russia (London: Macmillan, 1988).
  8. Fleron, Frederic, ed. Technology and Communist Culture: The Socio-cultural Impact of Technology under Socialism (New York: Praeger, 1977).
  9. Gelb, Michael, ed. An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
  10. Graham, Loren R. "The Fits and Starts of Russian and Soviet Technology," in Technology, Culture and Development: The Experience of the Soviet Model (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992), pp. 3-24.
  11. Graham, Loren R. The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993). Annotation
  12. Heywood, Anthony J. Modernising Lenin’s Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  13. Hoffman, Eric P. "Soviet Views of 'The Scientific-Technological Revolution,'" World Politics (July 1977): 615-44.
  14. Husband, William. Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917-1920 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).
  15. Hutchings, Raymond. Soviet Science, Technology, and Design: Interaction and Convergence (London: Oxford University Press, 1976).
  16. Josephson, Paul. "'Projects of the Century' in Soviet History: Large-Scale Technologies from Lenin to Gorbachev," Technology and Culture 3:36 (July 1995): 519-59.
  17. Kruse-Vaucienne, Ursula M., and John Logsdon. Science and Technology in the Soviet Union: A Profile (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1979).
  18. Kruze-Vaucienne, Ursula M., and John R. Thomas, eds. Soviet Science and Technology: Domestic and Foreign Perspectives (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1977).
  19. Kuromiya, Hiroaki. Stalin's Industrial Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
  20. Lampert, Nicholas. The Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State (New York: Macmillan, 1979).
  21. Lewis, Robert A. Science and Industrialization in the USSR (New York: Macmillan, 1979).
  22. Miller, Robert. "The Scientific-Technical Revolution and the Soviet Administrative Battle," in Paul Cocks et al., eds., The Dynamics of Soviet Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976), pp. 137-155.
  23. O'Konnor, Timothy E. The Engineer of Revolution: L.B. Krasin and the Bolsheviks, 1870-1926 (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992).
  24. Parrott, Bruce. Politics and Technology in the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983).
  25. Scanlan, James P., ed. Technology, Culture and Development: The Experience of the Soviet Model (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1992).
  26. Shearer, David R. Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).
  27. Siegelbaum, Lewis A. Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
  28. Solomon, Peter, Jr. "Technological Innovation and Soviet Industrialization," in Mark G. Field, ed., Social Consequences of Modernization in Communist Societies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), pp. 207-33.
  29. Starr, S, Frederick. "New Communications Technologies and Civil Society," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 19-50.
  30. Sutton, Antony. Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 3 vols. (Stanford: Hoover Inst. Press, 1968-73).
  31. Ward, Chris. Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and the State Policy, 1921-1929 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Bel'kind, L.D., et al. Istoriia tekhniki (Moscow: Gosenergoizdat, 1956).
  2. Bogoliubov, A.N. Sovetskaia shkola mekhaniki mashin (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).
  3. Ioffe, A.F., et al., eds. Nauka i tekhnika SSSR, 1917-1927 (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1926).
  4. Kryshtanovskaia, Ol'ga V. Inzhenery: Stanovlenie i razvitie professional'noi gruppy (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
  5. Levshin, B.V. Sovetskaia nauka v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  6. Nauka i tekhnika SSSR, 1917-1987: Khronika (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  7. Ocherki razvitiia tekhniki v SSSR, 5 vols. (Moscow: Nauka, 1968-76).
  8. Popova, T.E. Razvitie biotekhnologii v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  9. Rosenfel'd, Ia.S., and K.I. Klimenko. Istoriia mashinostroeniia SSSR s pervoi poloviny XIX veka do nashikh dnei (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1968).
  10. Sovetskaia nauka i tekhnika za 50 let: Razvitie tekhniki v SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  11. Sovetskaia tekhnika za dvadtsat' piat' let (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1945).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Land and Marine Transportation

Sources in English:

  1. Argenbright, R.T. ‘The Russian Railroad System and the Founding of the Communist State, 1917-1922’ (unpublished PhD diss, Univ of California at Berkeley, 1990).

  2. Heywood, Anthony J. ‘Iu.V. Lomonosov and the Science of Locomotive Testing in Russia: First Steps, 1895–1901’, in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol.72, no.1 (2000–2001), pp.1-15.
  3. Heywood, Anthony J. ‘Iu.V. Lomonosov and the Science of Locomotive Testing in Russia: Consolidation, Methodology and Impact, 1908–17’, in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol.72, no.2 (2000–2001), pp.269-93.

  4. Heywood, Anthony J. Modernising Lenin’s Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

  5. Heywood, Anthony J. ‘Russia’s Foreign Supply Policy in World War I: Imports of Railway Equipment’, The Journal of European Economic History, vol.32, no.1 (spring 2003), pp.77-108.
  6. Heywood, Anthony J. ‘Soviet Economic Concessions Policy and Industrial Development in the 1920s: The Case of the Moscow Railway Repair Factory’, in Europe–Asia Studies, vol.53, no.3 (May 2000), pp.549-69.
  7. Heywood, Anthony J. ‘War Destruction and Remedial Work in the Early Soviet Economy: Myth and Reality on the Railroads’, The Russian Review, vol..64, no.3 (July 2005), pp.456-79.
  8. Heywood, Anthony J., and I.D.C. Button. Soviet Locomotive Types: The Union Legacy (Malmo: Frank Stenvalls Forlag, 1995).
  9. Hunter, Holland. Soviet Transportation Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957).
  10. North, Robert N. Transport in Western Siberia: Tsarist and Soviet Development (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1979).
  11. Page, F.M., & J.  Nurminen, Russian Locomotives, vol.2: 1905-1924 (Sutton Coldfield: Retrieval, 1992).
  12. Payne, Matthew. Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism (Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh  Press, 2001).
  13. Rees, E.A. Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928-41 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995).
  14. Schultz, K.S. "Building the Soviet Detroit: The Construction of the Nizhnii-Novgorod Automobile Factory, 1927-1932," Slavic Review 49 (1990): 200-12.
  15. Westwood, J.N. Soviet Locomotive Technology during Industrialization, 1928-1952 (London: Macmillan, 1982).
  16. Westwood, J.N. Soviet Railways to Russian Railways  (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
  17. Westwood, J.N. Soviet Railways Today (London: Ian Allan, 1963).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aganbegian, A.G., and A.A. Kin, eds. BAM: pervoe desiatiletie (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1985).
  2. Fadeev, G.M., et al (eds). Istoriia zheleznodorozhnogo transporta Rossii, tom 1: 1836-1917 (St Petersburg: Ivan Fedorov, 1994).
  3. Fadeev, G.M., et al (eds). Istoriia zheleznodorozhnogo transporta Rossii i Sovetskogo Soiuza, tom 2: 1917-1945 (St Petersburg–Moscow, 1997).
  4. Khanovich, I.G. Akademik Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1967).
  5. Kovalev, I.V. Transport v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine, 1941-1945 (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  6. Naporko, A.G. Ocherki razvitiia zheleznodorozhnogo transporta SSSR (Moscow, 1954).
  7. Naporko, A.G. Zheleznodorozhnyi transport v gody industrializatsii SSSR (1926-1941) (Moscow: Transport, 1970).
  8. Norman, E.A. ‘Teplovoz professora Lomonosova – pervenets sovetskogo i mirovogo teplovozostroeniia’, in Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki, No.4 (1985), pp.116-25.
  9. Orlov, B.P. Razvitie transporta SSSR, 1917-1962: Istoriko-ekonomicheskii ocherk (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1963).
  10. Rakov, V.A. Lokomotivy otechestvennykh zheleznykh dorog, 1845-1955 (Moscow: Transport, 1995)
  11. Solomenko, N.S., ed. Ocherki istorii otechestvennogo korablestroeniia (Moscow: Nauka, 1990).
  12. Zenzinov, N.A. Vydaiushchiesia inzhenery i uchenye zheleznodorozhnogo transporta (Moscow: Transport, 1978).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Air Transportation

Sources in English:

  1. Alexander, Jean. Russian Aircraft Since 1940 (London: Putnam, 1975).
  2. Alexandrov, Andrew. "Junkers Planes in Russia," Skyways 25 (1993): 42-52.
  3. Alexandrov, Andrew. "Kalinin and His Planes," Skyways 24 (1992): 7-21.
  4. Andersson, Lennart. Soviet Aircraft and Aviation, 1917-1941 (Annapolis: Putnam Aeronautical Naval Inst. Press, 1994).
  5. Belyakov, R.A., and Jacques Marmain. Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design (Annapolis: Putnam Aeronautical Naval Inst. Press, 1994).
  6. Duffy, Paul R., and Andrei Kandalov. Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft (Warrendale, Pa.: SAE International, 1996).
  7. Gerritsma, Joop. "Airline Profile: Aeroflot," Captain's Log: Airline and Airliner Quarterly 18 (1992): 70-77.
  8. Gorokhovskaya, E. A., and E. L. Zheltova, "Myth of Flight and the Flying Machine," Phystech Journal 1:1 (1994): 59-68.
  9. Hardesty, Von. Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1991).
  10. Kerber, Leonid L. Stalin's Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era, ed. Von Hardesty (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996).
  11. Moon, Howard. The Soviet SST: The Technopolitics of Tupolev-144 (New York: Orion, 1989).
  12. Scott W. Palmer, Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  13. Palmer, Scott W. "Peasants into Pilots: Soviet Air-Mindedness as an Ideology of Dominance," Technology and Culture 41:1 (January 2000): 1-26.
  14. Soviet Aviation and Air Power: A Historical View (London: Brassey's, 1978).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aviatsiia v Rossii: Spravochnoe izdanie (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1988).
  2. Chernenko, Gennadii. Gleb Evgen'evich Kotel'nikov, 1872-1944 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1988).
  3. Iakovlev, A.S. Tsel' zhizni: zapiski aviakonstruktora. (Moscow: Politizdat, 1987).
  4. Katyshev, G.I., and V.R. Mikheev. Aviakonstruktor Igor' Ivanovich Sikorskii, 1889-1972 (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
  5. Katyshev, G.I., and V.R. Mikheev. Kryl'ia Sikorskogo (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel'stvo, 1992).
  6. Novozhilov, G.V., ed. Iz istorii sovetskoi aviatsii: Samolety OKB imeni S.V. Il'iushina, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1990).
  7. Obraztsov, I.F., ed. Razvitie aviatsionnoi nauki i tekhniki v SSSR: Istoriko-tekhnicheskie ocherki. (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
  8. Ozerov, G.A. Tupolevskaia sharaga, 2nd ed. (Frankfurt/Main: Posev, 1973).
  9. Ponomarev, A.N. Konstruktor S.V. Iliushin (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1988).
  10. Ponomarev, A.N. Sovetskie aviatsionnye konstruktory, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1990).
  11. Raushenbakh, B.V., ed. Issledovaniia po istorii i teorii razvitiia avatsionnoi i raketno-kosmicheskoi nauki i tekhniki.
  12. Shavrov, V.B. Istoriia konstruktsii samoletov v SSSR do 1938 goda: Materialy k istorii samoletostroeniia (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1969).
  13. Shavrov, V.B. Istoriia konstruktsii samoletov v SSSR, 1938-1950 gg.: Materialy k istorii samoletostroeniia, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1988).
  14. Vetrov, Georgii S. S.P. Korolev v aviatsii: idei, proekty, konstruktsii (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: The Space Program

Sources in English:

  1. Barry, William P. "The Missile Design Bureaux and Soviet Piloted Space Policy, 1953-1974." Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University, 1995.
  2. Blaine, James C.D. The End of an Era in Space Exploration: From International Rivalry to International Cooperation. San Diego: American Astronautical Society, 1976.
  3. Bulkeley, Rip. The Sputniks Crisis and Early United States Space Policy: A Critique of the Historiography of Space (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991).
  4. Clark, Phillip. The Soviet Manned Space Program: An Illustrated History of the Men, the Missions, and the Spacecraft (New York: Orion Books, 1988).
  5. Daniloff, Nicolas. The Kremlin and the Cosmos (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972).
  6. Divine, Robert A. The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
  7. Doel, Ronald E. "Evaluating Soviet Lunar Science in Cold War America," Osiris 7 (1992): 238-64.
  8. Ezell, Edward C., and Linda Neuman Ezell. The Partnership : A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978).
  9. Gruntman, Mike. Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry (Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004).
  10. Harford, James. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
  11. Harland, David M. The MIR Space Station: A Precursor to Space Colonization (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
  12. Harvey, Brian, and Patrick Moore. Race into Space: The Soviet Space Programme (Chichester: E. Horwood Halsted Press, 1988).
  13. Harvey, Dodd L., and Linda C. Ciccoritti. U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Space (Miami: Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, 1974).
  14. Heppenheimer, T.A. Countdown: A History of Space Flight (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997).
  15. Humble, Ronald. The Soviet Space Programme (London; New York: Routledge, 1988).
  16. Johnson, Nicholas L. The Soviet Reach for the Moon (Cosmos Books, 1995).
  17. Kosmodemiansky, A.A. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1857-1935 (Moscow: Nauka, 1985).
  18. Krieger, F.J. Behind The Sputniks: A Survey of Soviet Space Science (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1958).
  19. Lardier, Christian. L'Astronautique Soviètique (in French) (Paris: Armand Colin, 1992).
  20. McDougall, Walter A. …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985).
  21. Newkirk, Dennis. Almanac of Soviet Manned Flight (Houston: Gulf, 1990).
  22. Oberg, James E. The New Race for Space: The US and Russia Leap to the Challenge for Unlimited Rewards (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1984).
  23. Oberg, James E. Red Star in Orbit (New York: Random House, 1981).
  24. Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite, eds. Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith (Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000).
  25. Reeves, Robert. The Superpower Space Race: An Exlosive Rivalry through the Solar System (New York: Plenum, 1994).
  26. Roads to Space (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).
  27. Romanov, Aleksandr. Spacecraft Designer: The Story of Sergey Korolev (Moscow: Novosti Press, 1976).
  28. Sagdeev, Roald Z. The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space from Stalin to Star Wars (New York: Wiley, 1994).
  29. Schauer, William H. The Politics of Space: A Comparison of the Soviet and American Space Programs (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1976).
  30. Siddiqi, Asif A. Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, 2000).
  31. Siddiqi, Asif A. “The Rockets’ Red Glare: Technology, Conflict, and Terror in the Soviet Union.” Technology and Culture 44:3 (2003): 470-501.
  32. Sokol'skij, V.N. Russian solid-fuel rockets (Springfield, Va.: US Dept. of Commerce, 1967).
  33. Stoiko, Michael. Soviet Rocketry: Past, Present, and Future (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
  34. Tereshkova, Valentina. Valentina: First Woman in Space. Conversations with A. Lothian (Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1993).
  35. Von Bencke, Matthew J. The Politics of Space: A History of U.S.-Soviet/Russian Competition and Cooperation in Space (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1997).
  36. Vladimirov, Leonid. The Russian Space Bluff: The Inside Story of the Soviet Drive to the Moon (New York: Dial Press, 1973).
  37. Wilson, Andrew. Solar System Log (London: Jane's Publishing Company Limited, 1987).
  38. Yuri Gagarin: To Mark the 25th Anniversary of the First Manned Space Flight (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1986).
  39. Zaehringer, Alfred J. Soviet Space Technology (New York: Harper, 1961).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Avduevskii, V.S., and T.M. Eneev, eds. M.V. Keldysh. Izbrannye trudy: raketnaia tekhnika i kosmonavtika (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  2. Babakin, N.G., A.N. Banketov, and V.N. Smorkalov. G.N. Babakin: zhizn' i deiatel'nost' (Moscow: Adamant, 1996).
  3. Belyanov, V., et al. "Yurii Gagarin's Star Voyage: Documents from the First Flight of a Human into Space" (in Russian), Izvestiia TsK KPSS, no. 5 (1991): 101-29.
  4. Blagonravov, A.A., ed. Uspekhi SSSR v issledovanii kosmicheskogo prostranstva: Pervoe kosmicheskoe desiatiletie, 1959-1967 (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).
  5. Chertok, Boris. Rakety i liudi, 3 vols. (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1994-97).
  6. Dorogi v kosmos, 2 vols. (Moscow: MAI, 1992).
  7. Favorskii, V.V., and I.V. Meshcheriakov, eds. Voenno-kosmicheskie sily. Kniga I: Kosmonavtika i vooruzhennyye sily (Moscow: VO Nauka, 1997).
  8. Filin, V. Put' k "Energii" (Pushkino: Graal', 1997).
  9. Gerchik, K.V., et al. Proryv v kosmos: Ocherki ob ispytateliakh, spetsialistakh i storiteliakh kosmodroma Baikonur (Moscow: Veles, 1994).
  10. Glushko, V.P. Razvitie raketostroeniia i kosmonavtiki v SSSR, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1987).
  11. Golovanov, Iaroslav. Korolev: fakty i mify (Moscow: Nauka, 1994).
  12. Gosudarstvennyi kosmicheskii nauchno-proizvodstvennyi tsentr imeni M.V. Khrunicheva (Moscow: RUSSLIT, 1997).
  13. Idei K.E. Tsiolkovskogo i sovremennye nauchnye problemy (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
  14. Ishlinskii, A.Iu. Akademik S.P. Korolev: uchenyi, inzhener, chelovek. Tvorcheskii portret po vospominaniiam sovremennikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  15. Iz istorii sovetskoi kosmonavtiki: Sbornik pamiati akademika S.P. Koroleva (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  16. Kamanin, Nikolai. Skrytyi kosmos, 2 vols. (Moscow: Infortekst IF, 1995-97).
  17. Keldysh, Mstislav V. Kosmicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  18. Keldysh, Mstislav V., ed. Tvorcheskoe nasledie Akademika Sergeia Pavlovicha Koroleva: Izbrannye trudy i dokumenty (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
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  21. Khrushchev, Sergei. Nikita Khrushchev: krizisy i rakety: vzgliad iznutri (Moscow: Novosti, 1994).
  22. Kosmodemianskii, A.A. K.E. Tsiolkovskii: Issledovanie nauchnogo naslediia i materialy biografii (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
  23. Kosmodemianskii, A.A. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, 1857-1935. 2nd ed. (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  24. Kupriianov, V.K., and V.V. Chernyshev. I vechernyi start...: rasskaz o glavnom konstruktore raketnykh dvigatelei Aleksee Mikhailoviche Isaeve (Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1988).
  25. Men'shikov, V.A. Baikonur: Moia bol' i liubov'. Zapiski glavnogo inzhenera kosmodroma (Moscow: Garant).
  26. Nachalo kosmicheskoi ery: vospominaniia veteranov raketno-kosmicheskoi tekhniki i kosmonavtiki, 2 vols. (Moscow: RNITsKD, 1994).
  27. Nauchnoe tvorchestvo K.E. Tsiolkovskogo i sovremennoe razvitie ego idei (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
  28. Nezabyvaemyi Baykonur (Moscow: Interregional Council of Veterans of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, 1998).
  29. Pionery osvoeniia kosmosa i sovremennost' (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  30. Pappo-Korystin, V., V. Platonov, and V. Pashchenko. Dneprovskii raketno-kosmicheskii tsentr (Dnepropetrovsk: PO YuMZ/KBYu, 1994).
  31. Pokrovskii, B.A.. Kosmos nachinaetsia na zemle (Moscow: Patriot, 1996).
  32. Prishchepa, V.I. Ari Shternfel'd: Pioner kosmonavtiki, 1905-1980 (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  33. Proryv v kosmos: ocherki ob ispitateliakh spetsialistakh i stroiteliakh kosmodroma Baikonur (Moscow: TOO Veles, 1994).
  34. Rakhmanin, V.F., and L.E. Sterpin, eds. Odnazhdy i navsegda...: dokumenty i liudi o sozdatele raketnykh dvigatelei i kosmicheskikh sistem akademike Valentine Petroviche Glushko (Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1998).
  35. Raketno-Kosmicheskaia Korporatsiia "Energiia" imeni S.P. Koroleva (Korolev: RKK Energiya, 1996).
  36. Raketnye voiska strategicheskogo naznacheniia (Moscow: RVSN, 1992).
  37. Raushenbakh, Boris V., ed. Issledovaniia po istorii i teorii razvitiia avatsionnoi i raketno-kosmicheskoi nauki i tekhniki.
  38. Raushenbakh, Boris V., ed. Iz istorii sovetskoi kosmonavtiki: sbornik pamiati Akademika S.P. Koroleva (Moscow: Nauka, 1983)
  39. Raushenbakh, Boris V., ed. Materialy po istorii kosmicheskogo korablia "Vostok" (Moscow: Nauka, 1991).
  40. Raushenbakh, Boris V., and Georgii S. Vetrov. Korolev i ego delo: svet i teni v istorii kosmonavtiki (Moscow: Nauka, 1998).
  41. Rebrov, Mikhail. Kosmicheskie katastrofy: stranichki iz sekretnogo dos'e (Moscow: Eksprint NV, 1996).
  42. Romanov, Aleksandr P. Korolev (Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1996).
  43. Romanov, Aleksandr P., and V.S. Gubarev. Konstruktory (Moscow: Politizdat, 1989).
  44. Shatalov, V.A. Kosmonavty SSSR, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1980).
  45. Vernov, S.N., ed. Uspekhi Sovetskogo Soiuza v issledovanii kosmicheskogo prostranstva: Vtoroe kosmicheskoe desiatiletie, 1967-1977 (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Energy Conversion

Sources in English:

  1. Coopersmith, Jonathan. The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1992).
  2. Gustafson, Thane. Crisis Amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989).
  3. Kartsev, Vladimir P. Krzhizhanovsky (Moscow: Mir, 1985).
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  1. Bel'kind, L.D., et al. Istoriia energeticheskoi tekhniki (Moscow: Gosenergoizdat, 1960).
  2. Chekanov, A.A., and B.N. Rzhonsnitskii. Mikhail Andreevich Shatelen (Moscow: Nauka, 1972).
  3. Dombrovskii, V.V. Aleksandr Emel'ianovich Alekseev, 1891-1975 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1988).
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  6. Frolov, V.S. Viktor Sergeevich Kulebakin (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
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  9. Kartsev, Vladimir P. Mikhail Polievktovich Kostenko (1889 - 1976) (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  10. Rossiia elektricheskaia: Vospominaniia stareishikh energetikov, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Energiia, 1980).
  11. Shevtsov, V.N., and I.S. Smirnov. Genrikh Osipovich Graftio (Moscow: Gosenergoizdat, 1955).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Nuclear Industry

Sources in English:

  1. Chernousenko, V.M. Chernobyl: Insight from the Inside (Berlin and New York: Springer, 1991).
  2. Friedman, Sharon M. "Chernobyl Coverage: How the US Media Treated the Nuclear Industry," Public Understanding of Science 1 (1992): 305-23.
  3. Gould, Peter. Fire in the Rain: The Democratic Consequences of Chernobyl (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
  4. Josephson, Paul. "Atomic Energy and 'Atomic Culture' in the USSR: The Ideological Roots of Economic and Safety Problems Facing the Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl," in T. Anthony Jones et al., eds., Soviet Social Problems (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991).
  5. Josephson, Paul. "Atomic-Powered Communism: Nuclear Culture in the Postwar USSR," Slavic Review 2:55 (Summer 1996): 297-324.
  6. Josephson, Paul. "The Historical Roots of the Chernobyl Disaster," Soviet Union 13 (1986): 275-99.
  7. Josephson, Paul. "Rockets, Reactors and Soviet Culture," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 168-91.
  8. Kalinin, A.V. "Soviet Nuclear Secrets," IEEE Spectrum 31 (1994): 32-38.
  9. Kramish, Arnold. Atomic Energy in the Soviet Union (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959).
  10. Marples, David R. Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR (New York: Macmillan, 1987).
  11. Marples, David R. The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988).
  12. Medvedev, Grigori. The Truth About Chernobyl (New York: Basic Books, 1991).
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  14. Medvedev, Zhores. Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (London: Angus & Robertson, 1979).
  15. Oberg, James E. Uncovering Soviet Disasters (New York: Random House, 1988).
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  17. Shcherbak, Iurii. Chernobyl: A Documentary Story (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989).
  18. Yaroshinskaya, Alla. Chernobyl: The Forbidden Truth (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Alferov, Zh.I., ed. K 90-letiiu akademika A.P. Aleksandrova (St. Petersburg: FTI, 1993).
  2. Atomnoi energetike XX let (Moscow: Atomizdat, 1974).
  3. Inopin, E.V., ed. Ocherki po istorii razvitiia iadernoi fiziki v SSSR (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1982).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Mining Industry

Sources in English:

  1. Astakhov, Alexander. "Technological Diffusion in the Coal Mining Industry of the USSR," Technological Forecasting and Social Change 38 (1990): 223-56.
  2. Chamberlin, William H. Russia's Iron Age (Boston: Little, Brown, 1934).
  3. Graham, Loren R. The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993). Annotation
  4. Kotkin, Stephen. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
  5. Kotkin, Stephen. Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
  6. Rumer, Boris Z. Soviet Steel: The Challenge of Industrial Modernization in the USSR (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
  7. Scott, John. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
  8. ZumBrunnen, Craig. The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld Publishers, 1986).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Belov, A.F., et al. Istoriia metallurgii legkikh splavov v SSSR, 1917-1945 (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  2. Chekanov, A.A. Evgenii Oskarovich Paton (Moscow: Nauka, 1963).
  3. Frantsevich, I.N., and V.I. Trefilov, eds. Poroshkovaia metallurgiia v SSSR: Istoriia. Sovremennoe sostoianie. Perspektivy (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  4. Kazantsev, B.N. Vosstanovlenie i razvitie chernoi metallurgii SSSR, 1949-1950 (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
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  7. Zvorykin, A.A. Ocherki po istorii sovetskoi gornoi tekhniki (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1948).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Chemical Industry

Sources in English:

  1. Amann, Ronald. "The Soviet Chemicalization Drive and the Problem of Innovation," in Ronald Amann and Julian Cooper, eds., Industrial Innovation in the Soviet Union (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982), pp. 127-211.
  2. Ipatieff, V.N. Life of a Chemist (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1946).
  3. Sagers, Matthew J., and Theodore Shabad. The Chemical Industry in the USSR: An Economic Geography (Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1990).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Lel'chuk, V.S. Sozdanie khimicheskoi promyshlennosti SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1964).
  2. Luk'ianov, P.M. Kratkaia istoriia khimicheskoi promyshlennosti SSSR ot vozniknoveniia khimicheskoi promyshlennosti v Rossii do nashikh dnei (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1959).
  3. Razvitie khimicheskoi promyshlennosti v SSSR, 1917-1980 (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
  4. Stranitsy geroicheskogo truda khimikov v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941-1945: Sbornik statei i vospominanii (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
  5. Volkov, V.A., et al. Lev Iakovlevich Karpov (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
  6. Volkov, V.A. V.I. Lenin i razvitie khimicheskoi promyshlennosti SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Computing and Cybernetics

Sources in English:

  1. Agamirzian, Igor. "Computing in the USSR," Byte 16:4 (1991): 120-29.
  2. Apokin, I.A., and A.Z. Chapovskii. "The Origins of the First Scientific Center for Automation," History and Technology 8:2 (1992): 133-38.
  3. Arbib, Michael A. "A Partial Survey of Cybernetics in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union," Behavioral Science 11:3 (May 1966): 193-216.
  4. Babuska, I. "The Development of Computational Mathematics in Czechoslovakia and the USSR," in Stephen G. Nash, ed., A History of Scientific Computing (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990).
  5. Campbell, Heather. Organization of Research, Development and Production in the Soviet Computer Industry. Report R-1617-PR. Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, December 1976.
  6. Carr III, John W., Alan J. Perlis, James E. Robertson, and Norman R Scott. "A Visit to Computation Centers in the Soviet Union," Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 2:6 (1959): 8-20.
  7. Cave, Martin. Computers and Economic Planning: The Soviet Experience (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
  8. Comey, David D. "Soviet Publications on Cybernetics," Studies in Soviet Thought 4:2 (June 1964): 142-61.
  9. Crowe, Gregory D., and Seymour E. Goodman. "S.A. Lebedev and the Birth of Soviet Computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 16:1 (Spring 1994): 4-24.
  10. Davis, N.C., and Seymour E. Goodman. "The Soviet Bloc's Unified System of Computers," ACM Computer Surveys 10:2 (June 1978): 93-122.
  11. Ershov, Andrei P. "A History of Computing in the USSR," Datamation 21 (September 1975): 80-88.
  12. Ershov, Andrei P., and Mikhail R. Shura-Bura. "The Early Development of Programming in the USSR," in N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota, eds., A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1980), pp. 137-96.
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  14. Gillespie, Richard D. "Cybernetics and Politics in the Soviet Union." Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, 1970.
  15. Gillespie, Richard D. "The Politics of Cybernetics in the Soviet Union," in Albert H. Teich, ed., Scientists and Public Affairs (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974), pp. 239-98.
  16. Glushkov, V.M. "USSR, Computing in," Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1977), pp. 498-507.
  17. Goodman, Seymour E. "Software in the Soviet Union: Progress and Problems," Advances in Computers 18 (1979): 231-87.
  18. Goodman, Seymour E. "Soviet Computing and Technology Transfer: An Overview," World Politics 31:4 (July 1979): 539-70.
  19. Goodman, Seymour E., and W.K. Henry. "The Soviet Computer Industry: A Tale of Two Sectors," Communications of the ACM 34:6 (June 1991): 25-29.
  20. Hardt, John P., et al., eds. Mathematics and Computers in Soviet Economic Planning (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967).
  21. Holloway, David. "Innovation in Science--the Case of Cybernetics in the Soviet Union," Science Studies 4 (1974): 299-337.
  22. Judy, Richard W., and Robert W. Clough. "Soviet Computing in the 1980s: A Review of the Hardware," Advances in Computers 29 (1989): 251-330.
  23. Judy, Richard W., and Robert W. Clough. "Soviet Computing in the 1980s: A Survey of the Software and Its Applications," Advances in Computers 30 (1990): 223-306.
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  27. Kuchment, Mark. "Active Technology Transfer and the Development of Soviet Microelectronics," in Charles Perry and Robert Pfaltzgraff, Jr., eds., Selling the Rope to Hang Capitalism? (Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey, 1987), pp. 60-69.
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  29. McHenry, William K., and Seymour E. Goodman. "MIS in Soviet Industrial Enterprise: The Limits of Reform from Above," Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 29:11 (1986): 1034-43.
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  34. Wolcott, Peter, and Seymour E. Goodman. "High-Speed Computers of the Soviet Union," Computer (September 1988): 32-41.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Apokin, I.A. Kibernetika i nauchno-tekhnicheskii progress (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).
  2. Apokin, I.A., and L.E. Maistrov. Istoriia vychislitel'noi tekhniki: Ot prosteishikh schetnykh prisposoblenii do slozhnykh releinykh sistem (Moscow: Nauka, 1990).
  3. Apokin, I.A., and L.E. Maistrov. Razvitie vychislitel'nykh mashin (Moscow: Nauka, 1974).
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Technology: Military technology

Sources in English:

  1. Albrecht, Ulrich. The History of the Soviet Armaments Industry (Chur: Harwood, 1993).
  2. Alexander, Arthur J. Decision-Making in Soviet Weapons Procurement. Adelphi Paper. Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Winter 1978/1979.
  3. Almquist, Peter. Red Forge: Soviet Military Industry Since 1965 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).
  4. Bolonkin, Alexander. The Development of Soviet Rocket Engines (for Strategic Missiles) (Falls Church, VA: Delphic, 1991).
  5. Colton, Timothy J., and Thane Gustafson. Soldiers and the Soviet State: Civil-Military Relations From Brezhnev to Gorbachev (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990).
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  7. Evangelista, Matthew. Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988).
  8. Ezell, Edward C. The AK 47 Story: Evolution of Kalashnikov Weapons (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1986).
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  12. Holloway, David. "Military Technology," in Ronald Amann et al., eds., Technological Level of Soviet Industry (by New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), pp. 407-88.
  13. Holloway, David. The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985).
  14. Jones, G., and C. Trebilcock. "Russian Industry and British Business, 1910-1930: Oil and Armaments," Journal of Economic History 11 (1982): 61-103.
  15. Jordan, John. Soviet Warships: 1945 to the Present (London: Arms and Armour, 1992).
  16. MacKenzie, Donald A. Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).
  17. McGwire, Michael, Ken Booth, and John McDonnell. Soviet Naval Policy: Objectives and Constraints (Halifax, Canada: Praeger, 1975).
  18. The Military Encyclopedia of Russia and Eurasia, 8 vols. (Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press).
  19. Philbin, Tobias R. The Lure of Neptune: German-Soviet Naval Collaboration and Ambitions, 1919-1941 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994).
  20. Polmar, Norman. Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 (Annapolis: Putnam Aeronautical Naval Inst. Press, 1991).
  21. Zaloga, Steven. "Most Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Strategic Cruise Missiles, 1945-60," Journal of Slavic Military Studies 6 (1993): 262-73.
  22. Zaloga, Steven. Target America: The Soviet Union and the Strategic Arms Race, 1945-1964 (Novato, CA: Presidio, 1993).
  23. Zaloga, Steven. "Technological Surprise and the Initial Period of War: The Case of the T-34 Tank in 1941," Journal of Slavic Military Studies 6 (1993): 634-46.
  24. Zisk, Kimberly Marten. Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993).

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  1. Baluev, V.K. Razvitie voenno-inzhenernoi elektrotekhniki (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1958).
  2. Bez tain i sekretov: ocherk 60-letnei istorii tankovogo konstruktorskogo biuro na Kirovskom zavode v Sankt-Peterburge (St. Petersburg: Prana, 1997).
  3. Bolotin, D.N. Istoriia sovetskogo strelkovogo oruzhiia i patronov (Sankt-Peterburg: Poligon, 1995).
  4. Golubev, O.V., et al. "Zadachi upravleniia i otsenki effektivnosti v razrabotkakh otechestvennoi sistemy PRO," Tekhnicheskaia kibernetika 6 (1992): 166-74; 6 (1993): 186-92.
  5. Istoriia Tul'skogo oruzheinogo zavoda, 1712-1972 (Moscow: Mysl', 1973).
  6. Raketnye voiska strategicheskogo naznacheniia (Moscow: RVSN, 1992).
  7. Simonov, Nikolai S. Voenno-promyshlennyi kompleks SSSR v 1920-1950-e gody: tempy ekonomicheskogo rosta, struktura, organizatsiia proizvodstva i upravleniie (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1996).

Other Bibliographies:

  1. Selected Bibliography on Soviet Women in the Military by Kazimiera J. Cottam
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