How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet UPDATE:Default Title determinist underpinnings

determinist underpinnings

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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet UPDATE:Default Title determinist underpinningsAuthor Contributor(s): Peters, Benjamin Publisher: The MIT Press Date: 9 8 2017 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nationto construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the