How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet, by Benjamin Peters

John Gilbey on the USSR’s failed attempts to develop ‘Electronic Socialism’

Published on
June 16, 2016
Last updated
February 16, 2017
MESM (small electronic calculating machine) team, Theophania, near Kiev, 1952
Net gains: MESM (or small electronic calculating machine) and its team in the monastery in Theophania near Kiev, 1952

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