Academic Scientific JournalsBetween Two Ages: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the ‚Real‘ Revolution
Keywords:
Brzezinski, Soviet Union, Poland, technology, computersAbstract
The Soviet Union entered Poland in 1945 promising to create a revolutionary society that would soon transform the world. The Polish-American academic Zbigniew Brzezinski argued that by the 1960s it was the United States that represented the world’s only “real” revolution-having become the first society to enter the age of computer automation. In 1970 Brzezinski published his book Between Two Ages suggesting that the United States was pulling ahead of the Soviet Union in terms of high technology. At the same time the revolutionary dreams of industrial communism were coming to an end in Poland in a series of worker revolts along the Baltic Coast.
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