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

146 Chapter 4 computational center, a few dozen prominent computational centers, and a lower network. Such a structure will allo ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 147 rather a series of serious administrative, institutional, personal, political, policy, and so ...

148 Chapter 4 a system that could command information about those commands—or the economic metadata. When faced with the possibi ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 149 In subsequent OGAS preparatory proposals, Glushkov reframed the barebones EGSVTs network not ...

150 Chapter 4 reform. This convenient rhetorical distinction holds in later developments of the OGAS Project, including Glushkov ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 151 its most remote regional departments in Archangelsk and Karakalpak in Siberia, where it under ...

152 Chapter 4 network. But a great portion of the design choice to model the OGAS after the formal command economy follows from ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 153 1960s were a helpful preparatory period for building and securing political alliances that a ...

154 Chapter 4 L’viv System or Lviv MICS—an automated control system for streamlining the industrial processes in the Elektron te ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 155 In the late 1960s, after these and other limited local successes, top lead- ers began to heed ...

156 Chapter 4 Figure 4.18 Map of the proposed ASU train industry in the Donbass, Ukraine, about 1969. Figure 4.19 Viktor Glushko ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 157 they encountered. Against the bold vision of a networked electronic social- ist future, a tan ...

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No single actor could either make or undo the OGAS (All-State Automated System) Project. The hidden networks governing the Sovie ...

160 Chapter 5 Ministry Mutiny The strategic move that eventually stalemated the OGAS Project did not come from abroad. It came f ...

The Undoing of the OGAS, 1970 to 1989 161 Administration was “organized by the initiative of Lenin” and already does everything ...

162 Chapter 5 deputy. The oppressive Soviet interventions in Czechoslovakia sent a wave of recentralization, or rather antidecen ...

The Undoing of the OGAS, 1970 to 1989 163 counted on Kosygin’s support, but he too was away, pressing hands among the mourning c ...

164 Chapter 5 At that point, Garbuzov, who served as minister of finance for another fifteen years until his death in 1985, made ...

The Undoing of the OGAS, 1970 to 1989 165 the Nasser funeral to avoid having to cast a negative Politburo vote on the OGAS decis ...