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

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248 Notes to Chapter 4




  1. Glushkov, “Shto skazhet istoria,” 3, accessed April 15, 2015, http://ogas.kiev.ua/
    history/chto-skazhet-ystoryya.




  2. Author’s interview with Vera Viktorevna Glushkov, April 30, 2012.




  3. Gerovitch, “InterNyet.”




  4. Boris Nikolaevich Malinovsky, Vechno Khranit [Store Eternally] (Kiev: Gorobets,
    2007), 58.




  5. These details are summarized from four documents in the archival materials in
    Viktor M. Glushkov’s personal files, box 18, folder 1, documents 12, 119, 122, and
    123 inclusive, at the Archive and Special Collections, National Academy of Sciences
    of Ukraine, Kiev. Nancy Ries also examines the culture of institutional authorities as
    a form of moral power in Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika
    (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), 88–89.




  6. See the memoir of the leading participants in Lebedev’s team: Sergei Lebedev,
    Lev Dashevsky, and Ekaterina Shkabara, “Malaya elektronnaya shchyotnyaya mash-
    ina” [ “Small Electronic Digital Computer”], 1952, accessed April 15, 2015 http://
    it-history.ru/images/a/af/SALebedev_MESM.pdf; Malinovsky, Istoria vyichislitel’noi
    tekhniki v litsakh, 33–34.




  7. See the only known other secondary document on Cybertonia, Vera V. Glush-
    kova and Sergei A. Zhabin, “Virtualnaya strana Kibertonia v Institute Kibernetiki
    (60–70 gg, XX vek),” in Ukrainia i svit: gumanitarno-tekhnicheska elita ta sotsialnyi
    progress: tezi dopov [Ukraine and the World: Humanitarian-Technical Elite and Social
    Progress], supplementary theses, International Scientific-Theoretical Conference for
    Students and Graduate Students, April 4–5, 2012 (Kharkiv: NTU Kharkiv, 2012),
    81–83.




  8. Personal correspondence with Vera Viktorevna Glushkova, February 28, 2012.




  9. Public press on Cybertonia includes clippings from “Vechirnii Kiiv,” 305 (5624)
    (December 31, 1962): 3, and “Vechirniy Kiev,” 309 (6588) (December 31, 1965): 2–3.
    In parody of and in the same font as Vechernii Kiev, the group also issued its own
    Vechernyi Kyber as the “newspaper of the council of robots” 1 (1) (1966). See also
    “Podorozh v Krainu Kibertonii” [“Travel to the Country of Cybertonia”], Kievskii
    Komsomoltsyi 1 (1014) (August 1, 1963): 2–3, and A. Voloshin, “Kibertonia-65,”
    Vechirnii Kiev (February 16, 1965): 2. All documents are retained in the author’s per-
    sonal archives.




  10. Vera Viktorevna Glushkova, “Dorogoi chitatel’, dobro pozhalovat’ v ‘kiber-
    toniyu’!,” Cybertonia 1 (1) (2012): 2, accessed April 15, 2015, http://miratechgroup.
    com/sites/default/files/documents/press_about_us/kibertonia_n01-2012.pdf.




  11. For references on jazz in the Cold War and the Soviet Union, see S. Frederick
    Starr, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917–1991 (New York: Oxford



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