Thirteen of twenty-four leading Soviet planners in 1927 were engineers

Evidence

In his book, Pollock also reported on the first draft of a five-year plan in 1927, and quoted a passage from it mentioning `the art of the social engineer, whose vocation is to restructure the whole basis of society’. He also noted that, of the twenty-four leading members of the central office of Gosplan in the USSR, thirteen were engineers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates about technocracy and the ‘social engineer’ as a figure in early Soviet planning, echoing broader mid-century critiques of managerial/technocratic socialism. — connects to: Soviet planning’s first draft celebrated social engineering with engineers in charge