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How Not to Network a Nation

The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

How Not to Network a Nation( )
Author: Peters, Benjamin
Series title:Information Policy Ser.
ISBN:978-0-262-53466-6
Publication Date:Sep 2017
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $40.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:312
Detailed Subjects: Computers / Networking / General
Social Science / Media Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.892 x 0.832 Inches
Book Weight:0.812 Pounds



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