Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power
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Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power is a book
by Sovietologist Mark R. Beissinger
which discusses the implementation of scientific management
in the Soviet Union
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Book
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...
by Sovietologist Mark R. Beissinger
Mark R. Beissinger
Mark R. Beissinger is an American Sovietologist and author of the book Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State, which won the 2003 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs as awarded by the American Political Science...
which discusses the implementation of scientific management
Scientific management
Scientific management, also called Taylorism, was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management...
in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
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