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Technology And Communist Culture: The Socio-Cultural Impact Of Technology Under Socialism. Edited by Frederic J. Fleron, Jr. New York and London: Praeger Publishers, 1977. xii, 520 pp. Tables.

Frederic Fleron has performed a valuable service in assembling for publication a number of papers from the 1975 Bellagio Conference on Technology and Communist Culture, the major focus of which was "the extent to which particular aspects of imported machine technology and technical rationality have proven to be more or less incompatible with the goal cultures of communist society and the ways in which these societies have attempted to deal with this problem by means of selective adaption of foreign technology and innovative indigenous developments" (p. 19). The articles are grouped into three sections, covering Marxist perspectives on technology, technology transfer and innovation, and the impact of technology and technical rationality in socialist countries. Individual contributions range from broad discussions of the theory of the technology-culture interface to concrete descriptions of specific instances of technology transfer. Fleron's introduction presents a coherent framework which is reflected in the individual chapters with more clarity than is usual in such collections, and his concluding chapter provides a useful summary of the separate theories propounded in the text.