M. Vysshaya shkola. 1982. 192 p. In recent years, many interesting theoretical and concrete historical works have been devoted to the study of the patterns of development of the working class of our country, which is the leading force, the vanguard of the society of mature socialism. They examine structural and professional shifts in the size and composition of the working class (both on a union-wide scale and within individual regions), study its republican detachments, and study the problems of the modern scientific and technological revolution (NTR) taking place in our country. However, so far there have been no monographic studies that would reveal the historical relationship of scientific and technological progress with the growth of industry and the social development of the working class of the USSR. To a large extent, this gap is filled by a book written by doctors of Historical Sciences-senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR V. S. Lelchuk and senior researcher at Moscow University E. E. Beilina. This is a comprehensive study that deals not just with scientific and technological progress, the growth of the country's industrial potential, and the dynamics of the number and composition of industrial personnel, but with the interrelation and interdependence of phenomena that together represent a single process, the essence of which is formulated in the title of the book. The importance of such a statement of the topic is obvious: it allows us to show how the role of industrial and production personnel increased in creating the base for deploying scientific and technological technologies, and how the industry itself became the first and main springboard on which the scientific and technological revolution manifested itself most extensively. Focusing on the analysis of the development of heavy industry - the basic branches of the national economy of the country, the authors consistently reviewed and reveal ... Читать далее