Atomic-Powered Communism: Nuclear Culture in the Postwar USSR
Atomic-Powered Communism: Nuclear Culture in the Postwar USSR
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原子动力共产主义：战后苏联的核文化
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1996
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P. Josephson
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1953年，就在斯大林去世后不久，苏联国家机床出版社出版了《A. A. Kanaev的《从水轮到原子引擎》（Ot vodianoi mel'nitsy do atomnogo dvigatelli）。与这一时期苏联大众和科学出版社出版的其他书籍和文章一样，《从水轮到原子引擎》探讨了一个早期“原子世纪”的政治、经济和文化意义，并吹捧原子能在农业、医学和工业中几乎无限的应用。事实上，在科学家、工程师、经济规划者和党的官员中，几乎没有人怀疑苏联将很快进入“共产主义建设”阶段：共产主义将在他们的有生之年实现，这要归功于共产党的全知全能的领导和科学技术的成就。到1990年代末，普通的苏联公民也开始相信辉煌的未来已经到来。许多人写信给著名的物理学家，就如何驯服原子的力量以提高生活质量提出建议。对于公民、科学家和官员来说，原子能的成功提供了不可否认的证据，证明社会终于踏上了通往共产主义的漫长旅程的最后一段。
In 1953, just after Stalin's death, the Soviet state machine tool publishing house released A. A. Kanaev's From the Water Wheel to the Atomic Engine (Ot vodianoi mel'nitsy do atomnogo dvigateli). Like other books and articles published in the popular and scientific press in the USSR in this period, From the Water Wheel to the Atomic Engine explored the political, economic, and cultural significance of an incipient “atomic century” and touted the nearly limitless applications of the power of the atom in agriculture, medicine, and industry. Indeed, there was little doubt among scientists, engineers, economic planners, and party officials that the Soviet Union would soon enter the stage of “communist construction”: communism would be achieved within their lifetimes, owing to the omniscient leadership of the Communist Party and on the basis of the achievements of science and technology. By the end of the decade, the average Soviet citizen, too, came to believe that the glorious future had arrived. Many people wrote letters to prominent physicists with suggestions on how to tame the power of the atom to improve the quality of life. For citizens, scientists, and officials alike, successes in atomic energy provided undeniable confirmation that at long last society had embarked on the final leg of the long journey to communism.