Prologue

1. Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Nor-
   bert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 392 n. 318.


2. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York:
   McGraw-Hill, 1964).


3. Slava Gerovitch, “InterNyet: Why the Soviet Union Did Not Build a Nationwide
   Computer Network,” History and Technology 24 (4) (December 2008): 335–350.


4. Viktor Shklovsky, “Art as Technique” (1917), in Russian Formalist Criticism: Four
   Essays, ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reiss (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
   1965), 3–24.


5. Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early
   Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), xvii.

Introduction

1. On September 19, 1990, fifteen months before the Soviet Union collapsed, the
   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) assigned the .su
   country code top-level domain, and it remains in use today.


2. For more on Akademgorodok, see Paul R. Josephson, New Atlantis Revisited:
   Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
   1977).


3. The literature on the Soviet Union’s role in the cold war is enormous. Readers
   unacquainted with that literature may wish to start with a primer on the global cold
   war context, such as Robert J. McMahon, The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
   (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Steven Lovell, The Soviet Union: A Very
   Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), and a more substantial

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