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Pages: 386
Authors: Slava Gerovitch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-17 - Publisher: MIT Press

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In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society
Soviet Space Mythologies
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Slava Gerovitch
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-18 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were
How Not to Network a Nation
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Benjamin Peters
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Betwe
Dialogues
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Stanislaw Lem
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-28 - Publisher: MIT Press

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The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957,
Voices of the Soviet Space Program
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: S. Gerovitch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-16 - Publisher: Springer

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In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising