Adam Curtis Films

Pandora's Box: Part 1. 'The Engineers' Plot' (1992x1)

Date de diffusion: Jun 11, 1992

This episode, originally broadcast on 11 June 1992, details how the Bolshevik revolutionaries who came into power in 1917 attempted to industrialise and control the Soviet Union with rational scientific methods. The Bolsheviks wanted to turn the Soviet people into scientific beings. Aleksei Gastev used social engineering, including a social engineering machine, to make people more rational.