How Not to Network a Nation. The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

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Information Policy edited by Sandra Braman The Information Policy Series publishes research on and analysis of signifi- cant pro ...

How Not to Network a Nation The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet Benjamin Peters The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts Lon ...

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Joli Jensen, Michael Schudson, Fred Turner, Gary Browning Four mentors at four schools ...

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Contents Series Editor’s Introduction ix Introduction Prologue xi 1 A Global History of Cybernetics 2 Economic Cybernetics and ...

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In this first-ever book-length treatment of early Soviet intelligent network design history, Benjamin Peters uses uncanniness as ...

x Series Editor’s Introduction detailed studies of the practices and activities of transnational corporations on both sides of t ...

The seeds of this book were first planted as I stood on the left bank of the Volga River in Balakovo, Russia, one evening in the ...

xii Prologue series of footnotes to Plato, then this book began with an obscure footnote in Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman’s popul ...

Prologue xiii studies, the history of science and technology, and social thought that informed information policy discussions, b ...

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There is much which we must leave, whether we like it or not, to the un-“scientific” narrative method of the professional histor ...

2 Introduction This much is clear: the Soviet Union never had the Internet as it is known today.^1 Rather, in the early 1960s, S ...

Introduction 3 approaches to larger questions of social control and change—one institu- tional and the other technological. The ...

4 Introduction including authoritarian abuses, violence, and a cumbersome state hierarchy that subjected its citizens to politic ...

Introduction 5 network contemporary to the ARPANET, and yet they did not. What makes this story tragic is not that the Soviet po ...