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Rabinovich, E. I. (2018). Red Golem: Criticism of Industrial Civilization in Soviet Culture and Misticism During the Civil War. KnE Engineering, 3(8), 48–53. https://doi.org/10.18502/keg.v3i8.3608

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  • Dec 23, 2018

Red Golem: Criticism of Industrial Civilization in Soviet Culture and Misticism During the Civil War

KnE Engineering / Facets of Culture in the Age of Social Transition Proceedings of the All-Russian Research Conference / Pages 48–53

Abstract

This article describes an early Soviet version of the critique of the industrial culture, based on the works by Alexander Bogdanov and George Gurdjieff. Bogdanov’s analysis of Taylorism is explored within the context of the development of the concept of ‘proletarian culture’. Terminological apparatus of George Gurdjieff’s theory is described as a form of radical criticism of the early XXth-century culture. We also highlight the place of the ‘man-machine’ metaphor within the intellectual life of the post-revolutionary Soviet Russia.


 


 


Keywords: Taylorism, Soviet culture, 1919, А. Bogdanov, proletarian culture, G. Gurdjieff

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[1] Bogdanov, A. (1919). Mezhdu chelovekom i machinoy. Kharkov: O sisteme Teylora.


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[3] Scholem, G. (2004). Osnovnyye techeniya v evreiskoy mistike (Major Trends in Jewish Misticism). Moscow: Mosty kul’tury; Jerusalem: Gesharim