By Lawrence J. McQuillan | Thursday June 8, 2017 at 4:11 PM PDT | Comments Off on How Soviets in 1960 Imagined 2017, and the Biggest Changes They Missed
A 1960 Soviet filmstrip surfaced earlier this year depicting a vision of life in 2017. As Russia prepares for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, it is interesting to reflect on the filmstrip to see what Soviet propagandists got right and what they got wrong. The 45-frame filmstrip, found in a family...
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Tags: Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, FaceTime, Russia, scanning technology, self-driving cars, Skype, smart technology, Socialism, Soviet Union, Technology, USSR
By Robert Higgs | Monday March 21, 2011 at 8:45 AM PDT | 7 Comments
A review of James Ledbetter, Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. 268 pp. $26.00. On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his final presidential speech, which turned out to be his most memorable by virtue of this warning: “In the councils...
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Tags: American History, Books, C. Wright Mills, Chance for Peace, Cold War, Corporatism, crony capitalism, Defense, Defense Department, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Economics, garrison state, Imperialism, interventionism, James Ledbetter, Journal of Cold War Studies, Liberty, merchants-of-death, Military, military spending, military-industrial complex, national security state, New Left, Peace, Power, Russia, Stalin, technocratic elite, The State, Unwarranted Influence, USSR, War, war economy, warfare state, Weapons, William Proxmire, Wilsonianism
