USSR Information Bulletin
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author :
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Benjamin Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262034182
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 nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.
Author : Robert Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : IICA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Soviet Union
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Study in historical perspective of developments in economic policy in the USSR - covers economic structures and economic administration prior to and during the 1st world war, the position during the 50 years of the communist regime, political leadership of the country, the collective economy, industrialization, political problems, economic growth, etc. Bibliography pp. 389 to 391, and statistical tables.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Political Science
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Author : Air University (U.S.). Air Command and Staff College
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0199238480
Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Author : Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.)
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Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1941
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Anton Weiss-Wendt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0299312909
How both the Soviet Union and the United States manipulated and weakened the drafting of the United Nations Genocide Convention treaty in the midst of the Cold War.