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The People's Technology: Popular Uses and Perceptions of Technology under Communism

AHA Session 24
Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Manchester Ballroom C (Hyatt)
Chair:
Paul Josephson, Colby College
Papers:
Picturing the Nuclear Age/Picturing Socialism: Images of Nuclear Technologies in the East German Popular Press
Dolores L. Augustine, St. John's University
"Little Tsars of the Road": Soviet Truck Drivers and Auto-Mobility, 1920s–80s
Lewis Henry Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
Tasting Atoms—Modernizing Foodways—Negotiating Risks: Food Irradiation in Cold War East Germany
Karin Zachmann, Zentralinstitut für Geschichte der Technik, Technische Universität München
Comment:
James T. Andrews, Iowa State University
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