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

by Benjamin Peters

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534665
• ISBN13: 9780262534666
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher