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Red Prometheus
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Jed Z. Buchwald, general editor
Dolores L. Augustine,
Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany,
1945–1990
Mordechai Feingold, editor,
Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters
Larrie D. Ferreiro,
Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific
Revolution, 1600–1800
Sungook Hong,
Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion
Jeff Horn,
The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution,
1750–1830
Myles W. Jackson,
Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians and Instrument Makers in
Nineteenth-Century Germany
Myles W. Jackson,
Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision
Optics
Mi Gyung Kim,
Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre,
Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical
Ontology
John Krige,
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
Janis Langins,
Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to
the Revolution
Wolfgang Lefèvre, editor,
Picturing Machines 1400–1700
Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, editors,
Heredity Produced: At the
Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870
William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton, editors,
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and
Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
Gianna Pomata and Nancy Siraisi, editors,
Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early
Modern Europe
Alan J. Rocke,
Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry
George Saliba,
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
Red Prometheus
Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990
Dolores L. Augustine
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Augustine, Dolores L.
Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990 / Dolores
Augustine.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-01236-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Engineering—Germany (East)—His-
tory—20th century. 2. Technology—Germany (East)—History—20th century. 3. Germany
(East)—Social life and customs. I. Title.
TA73.1.A94 2007
620.00943
1—dc22
2007000656
10987654321
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