The engineers plot.

BAFTA Award-wining series on the 20th century rise and influence of science and technolgoy, with particular reference ot the U.S.A., Russia and Britain. The series has scarcely any medical content but is extremely well done and is of the greatest interest as a chronicle of 20th century delusions. "Part 1: The Engineers' Plot" From the Russian Revolution to the fall of communism in 1992, this episode describes the eager promotion of science in the Soviet Union's early post- Revolutionary years, the burden of unreal expectations put upon it, how it was hijacked by Stalin to reinforce state power and expected to perform economic miracles under Kruschev. Science thus became increasingly distanced from anything to do with the welfare of the Soviet people.