Balkan cyberia : Cold War computing, Bulgarian modernization, and the information age behind the Iron Curtain / Victor Petrov.

"Original take on the history of socialist Bulgaria, examined through the prism of computers to make broader claims about political, economic, intelligence, social, and cultural life in Bulgaria, and by extension, the Soviet bloc and state socialism in general"--

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Main Author: Petrov, Victor, 1987- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Series:MIT Press series in the history of computing.
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Online Access:Click for online access

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505 0 |a Introduction: The Worlds of the Bulgarian Computer -- The Conjuncture: The Road to the Bulgarian Electronic Industry -- The Captive Market: The Rise and Apogee of an Industry -- Access Denied: Spies, Technologies, and Circulation Across the Iron Curtain -- Roses and Lotuses: Bulgaria's Electronic Entanglement with India -- Automatic for the People: The Scientific-Technical Revolution and Society -- The Socialist Cyborg: Education, Intellectuals, and Culture -- Networked & Plugged-In: Computer Priests and Their Pathways -- Conclusion: The Uneven Future. 
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