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The Scrantonian Worldview Gazing East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

LEE VINSEL
LEE VINSEL*
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Lee Vinsel is an assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and co-organizer of The Maintainers, a research network focused on maintenance, repair, and mundane labor with technology. E-mail: leev@vt.edu.
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Abstract

This comment attempts, first and foremost, to place Phil Scranton’s article within the overall trajectory of his career as a writer and historian. A common theme of that career has been complicating—or, as this comment puts it, “mucking up”—existing historical narratives. Finally, this comment suggests that Scranton’s role as complicator sometimes gives too little guidance for how his thoughts connect to existing literature, and it puts forward some possible avenues for future exploration that spring from Scranton’s examination of communist enterprise.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2018 , pp. 561 - 569
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Copyright © The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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