Peter Palchinsky And The Industrial Revolution

Science and technology are terms that are thought to be always be growing and progressing. It is only natural for science and technology to flourish. However, in the Soviet Union, this had not been the case by any means. Science and Technology growth was not as prevalent in the Soviet Un-ion as it should have been. With this said, the objective at hand is to figure out why the overall pat-tern of organizational control of the Soviet Union often would inhibit rather than promote and en-courage growth of scientific knowledge and production of technological systems. In the first part of the essay, the control of scientists will be discussed showing examples of what is was like for them back during that time. Following that, a brief explanation

He was a brilliant man who served as the chairman of the Russian Technical Society and was a member of the governing Presidium of the All-Russian Associations of engineers (Graham 29). Palchinsky was all about furthering industrialization in the Soviet Union. Palchinsky had many ideas and visions of progressing the USSR with his ideologies on engineering and how it would help scientific production. Palchinsky believed that the single most important factor in engineering decisions were human beings (Graham 37). This included the treatment, education, conditions, and the use of people. He felt that an increase in education would education people to be more innovative in the industries. In this, he included the need of specialization schools to provide an unique area of focus for people to specialize in. He wanted the living conditions to be satisfactory for the workers, as he stated workers who had personally benefited from the improvements would be more enthusiastic and eager to work harder on their work (Graham 38). When it came to innovativeness, he felt that everyone should share their ideas when it came to production in order to have the best possible outcome. With all of this said, Palchinsky said people would become masters of their work, instead of slaves of their work (Graham

They provided them with good conditions, pay, and stuff that they would appreciate it. They did this because they knew that having enthusiasm would accelerate the pace of the project (Degroot 140). Thirdly, the scientists were even more enthusiastic to work on the project because of their patriotic duty of keeping their country free of attack and safe. When it came to space technology, people were enthusiastic about this because of the great visions they had for what the technology would bring them. The development of Sputnik helped instill that feeling as it made them feel superior to the Americans (Josephson 20). In my opinion, I think both the bomb and some space technology was successful due to brainwashing done by the higher figures in the USSR. By telling everyone that the country was at risk of being attacked made everyone more patriotic and thus more likely to work on the projects to protect their country and themselves. Basically, production was eminent when the Soviet people had faith in the