David Holloway: The Soviet Union: science, technology, and modernity.

There were those in the Soviet Union and outside who greatly
admired the Soviet commitment to science and technology. There were
others who thought that the Soviet system inhibited scientific
progress and technological innovation. And there were critics who
regarded Soviet communism as a product of science and modernity,
the perverse extreme of the belief that the world can be understood
as a system and directed to the benefit of humanity. What does the
Soviet experience tell us about science and technology? And what do
science and technology tell us about the Soviet Union?