TY - BOOK ID - 4893287 TI - How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet PY - 2016 SN - 9780262034180 0262034182 9780262334198 0262334194 9780262334181 0262334186 9780262334174 0262334178 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Computer networks KW - Internetworking (Telecommunication) KW - History. KW - Research KW - Peters, Benjamin, KW - Réseaux d'ordinateurs KW - Interconnexion de réseaux (Télécommunications) KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Recherche KW - Réseaux d'ordinateurs KW - Interconnexion de réseaux (Télécommunications) KW - Inter-networking (Telecommunication) KW - Interoperability in computer networks KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Network computers KW - Distributed processing KW - Sowjetunion KW - UdSSR KW - SSSR KW - Republik-Republik Kesatuan Soviet Sosialis KW - Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik KW - Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken KW - Union der SSR KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques KW - URSS KW - Russland KW - Russia KW - Padomju Sociālistiko Republiku Savienība KW - PSRS KW - SSṘM KW - ZSSR KW - TSRS KW - Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika KW - Soviet Union KW - SSHM KW - Sojuz Radjans'kich Sozialističnich Respublik KW - SRSR KW - Şyra Sosjalist Cumhyrijjẹtlẹri Ittifakĭ KW - Šura Socialist Gümhurietleri Ittipaky KW - Šura Sosyalist Ǧümhuriyetleri Ittifaqï KW - SSCB KW - Союз Советских Социалистических Республик KW - СССР KW - 1923-25.12.1991 KW - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy KW - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General KW - Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik KW - Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques KW - Padomju Sociālistiko Republiku Savienība KW - SSṘM KW - Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika KW - Sojuz Radjans'kich Sozialističnich Respublik KW - Şyra Sosjalist Cumhyrijjẹtlẹri Ittifakĭ KW - Šura Socialist Gümhurietleri Ittipaky KW - Šura Sosyalist Ǧümhuriyetleri Ittifaqï UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4893287 AB - "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."--Provided by publisher. ER -