InterNyet: why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network

Gerovitch, Slava

doi:10.1080/07341510802044736

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“…From the Soviet perspective, interest in further developing these techniques was naturally high, given the fact that cybernetics and automation have been increasingly embraced by the highest ranks of politics. By 1957, the Soviet Academy of Science had already emphasized the importance of computer technology as having ‘an absolutely exceptional significance’ (Gerovitch, 2008: 337). In 1964, the USSR’s Council of Ministers decided to develop a unified ‘automatic system of management’ (Rindzevičiūtė, 2010: 303).…”

Section: The Transfer Of Systems Analysis From Rand To Iiasamentioning

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Internationalization of Cold War systems analysis

Duller

2016

History of the Human Sciences

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This article has a dual purpose. First, it looks at the transfer of the methodology of systems analysis from the RAND Corporation to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in the wake of an East–West bridge-building effort during the Cold War. Second, it draws out a more general argument about how the institutional structures of these research organizations condition their methodological orientations. Acknowledging the complexity of factors influencing methodological choices at RAND and IIASA, the article concentrates on the centrality of institutional purpose, institutional environments and internal organizational structure, and demonstrates how, when taken together, these factors led to a methodological diversification at IIASA that is best summarized as the internationalization of systems analysis.

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Section: The Transfer Of Systems Analysis From Rand To Iiasamentioning

confidence: 99%

Internationalization of Cold War systems analysis

Duller

2016

History of the Human Sciences

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“…The French Cyclades network was built in the early 1970s and introduced several important advances. In contrast, the Soviet Union did not build a national network in spite, or as one historian has argued because, of its political commitment to cybernetic central control of the economy (Gerovitch, 2008).…”

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The history of information technology

Haigh

2011

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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“…Mientras, por su parte, Rusia vivió culturalmente encandilada por un futuro tecnológico que lograra asentar el proceso revolucionario (Traverso, 2017). Aunque en concreto después de sorprender con el lanzamiento del Sputnik en 1957 quedó en gran medida de espaldas a las revoluciones electrónicas computacionales que se darían a partir de la década siguiente en los Estados Unidos (sigo: Gerovitch, 2008;Peters, 2012).…”

Section: Introducción: La Izquierda «Frente» a La Encrucijada Tecnolóunclassified

Izquierda, software e internet: una agenda invisible

2018

Nomadas. Critical Journal of Social and Juridicals Sciences

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Resumen: El objetivo de estas páginas consiste en analizar las inscripciones políticas alrededor de ciertas discusiones en curso sobre software e internet. Específicamente: este artículo trata sobre los modos en que distintos grupos activistas abocados a los problemas políticos producto del uso masivo de servicios digitales fuertemente centralizados inscriben su lucha dentro de la tradición cultural de las izquierdas. Si, por un lado, la bibliografía destinada a pensar la izquierda del siglo XXI parece desconocer las propuestas concretas de los grupos activistas, por otro lado, estos mismos apelan a diferentes elementos tanto de la tradición marxista como libertaria. Se trata de discusiones que en buena medida también caen fuera de los estudios político-sociales contemporáneos y los activistas que las llevan a cabo han logrado plantear tanto una desconocida agenda de discusión sobre estos problemas como las coordenadas políticas para pensarlos. A continuación este texto pretende lograr su objetivo a través de tres de estos ejes de discusión: (I) sobre privacidad y criptografía, (II) sobre el uso de software libre y (III) sobre la importancia de utilizar redes descentralizadas. Finalmente, las inscripciones activistas y académicas de estas intervenciones permiten observar cómo se reconfiguran actualmente nuevas prácticas de militancia en relación a otras luchas sociales tradicionales dentro de la izquierda. Palabras clave:Izquierdas, Software libre, Encriptación, P2P, nuevos movimientos sociales Left Thought, Software and Internet: an Invisible Agenda Abstract:The aim of this article is to analyze the activists’ political inscriptions around the discussions connected with software and internet. On the one hand, the literature intended to think the left of the twenty-first century seems to ignore the concrete proposals of these activist groups. Where as, on the other hand, the activists dedicated the digital fights usually appeal to elements of the Marxist and anarchist traditions. Most of these activists have an academic inscription, but, in fact, they raise an unknown agenda of discussion and some concepts to think about it. Therefore, this text aims to achieve its objective through three of these axes of discussion: (I) cryptography and privacy, (II) software libre and left thought, and (III) importance of digital decentralized services. Finally, the activist and academic inscriptions of these interventions might lead us to an analysis of these new militant practices in relation with other traditional struggles of the left culture. Keywords: Left Thought, Software Libre, Cryptography, P2P, New Social Movements

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InterNyet: why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network

Cited by 53 publications

References 15 publications

Internationalization of Cold War systems analysis

Internationalization of Cold War systems analysis

The history of information technology

Izquierda, software e internet: una agenda invisible

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