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

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  1. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Boston: Unwin
    Hyman, [1905] 1930); see also R. H. Howe, “Max Weber’s Elective Affinities,” Ameri-
    can Journal of Sociology 84 (1978): 366–385; Ludwig Fleck, Genesis and Development of
    a Scientific Fact, trans. Fred Bradley and Thaddeus J. Trenn, ed. Thaddeus J. Trenn
    and Robert K. Merton (Chicago: Chicago University Press, [1935] 1979).

  2. Two researchers have characterized the stereotypical difference between Russian
    and Chinese informal influence as trending toward a logical-analytic mindset and a
    holistic-dialectical one. Snejina Michailova and Verner Worm, “Personal Network-
    ing in Russia and China: Blat and Guanxi,” European Management Journal 21 (4)
    (2003): 509–519.

  3. For more on technological utopianism in global contexts, see Howard P. Segal
    Technology and Utopia (Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 2006); for
    more on the Swedish Pirate Party, see Patrick Burkart, Pirate Politics: The New Infor-
    mation Policy Contests (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014).

  4. Michael Gordin, Hellen Tilley, and Gyan Prakash, “Introduction,” in Utopia/
    Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, ed. Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, and
    Gyan Prakash (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), 2, see also 1–6.

  5. Cat video scholarship exists. See Jody Berland, “Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of
    Nature and Desire,” Cultural Studies 22 (3–4) (2008): 431–454.

  6. Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry
    into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989).

  7. Nicholas John and Benjamin Peters, “Is the End Always Near? An Analysis and
    Comment on the End of Privacy, 1990–2012,” unpublished manuscript; Daniel J.
    Solove, “A Taxonomy of Privacy,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 154 (3)
    (2006): 477–560.

  8. George L. Priest, “The Ambiguous Moral Foundations of the Underground Econ-
    omy,” Faculty Scholarship Series, Paper 626 (1995), accessed April 15, 2015, http://
    digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1625&context=fss
    _papers.

  9. Eric Schatzberg, “Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology
    before 1930,” Technology and Culture 47 (2006): 486–511; see also Martin Heidegger,
    The Question concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York:
    Harper & Row, [1954] 1977), 287–317.

  10. Raymond Williams, “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory,” New
    Left Review 1 (82) (1973): 1–13; Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary,” in
    Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism (London: Verso), 3–14; Raymond
    Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form (London: Wesleyan University
    Press, [1974] 1992): 1–25.

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