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New Atlantis Revisited
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Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley
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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
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Computing in Russia: History of Computer Devices in Russia
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Georg Trogemann (Editor)
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From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics
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The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
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Andrei Soldatov (Goodreads Author)
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Tech Transfer Ussr/hs
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SETUN, An Inquiry Into the Soviet Ternary Computer
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Industrial Innovation in Soviet Union
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Computer in der DDR
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General der Mikroelektronik: Autobiographie
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Deckname "Saale": High-Tech-Schmuggler unter Schalck-Golodkowski
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Von Robotron bis Poly-Play: Computer und Videospiele in der DDR
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Ankunft einer Katze: Geschichte und Theorie der ersten Computersimulation eines Lebewesens
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Semen Karsakov. Ideenmaschine. Von der Homöopathie zum Computer
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Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games
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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
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Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experience with Communications Technologies
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Computers and Economic Planning: The Soviet Experience
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Pioneers of Soviet Computing
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Soviet Artificial Intelligence Research: The Tallinn Institute of Cybernetics
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Cybernetics Today: Achievements, Challenges, Prospects
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Red Computers: How Russia Lost the Computer Cold War
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Future Information Revolution in the USSR
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Richard F. Staar (Editor)
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From Glasnost to the Internet: Russia's New Infosphere
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Advances in Computers, Volume 29
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Marshall C. Yovits (Editor)
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Advances in Computers, Volume 18
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Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing: First IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, SoRuCom 2006, Petrozavodsk, Russia, July 3-7, 2006, Revised Selected ... and Communication Technology, 357)
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John Impagliazzo (Editor)
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Soviet Cybernetic Technology: A Timeline, Researcher's Data Base, and Guide to Professional Literature
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Terms for Soviet Access to Western Computer Technology (Essays in Public Policy ; No. 14)
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Western Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union
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Technology transfer to the Soviet Union: A challenge for the cohesiveness of the Western Alliance
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India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 73)
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Technology transfer to and from the Soviet bloc: A bibliography (Public administration series--bibliography)
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COLOG-88: International Conference on Computer Logic, Tallinn, USSR, December 12-16, 1988, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 417)
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Per Martin-Löf (Editor)
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Red Microchip: Technology Transfer, Export Control, and Economic Restructuring in the Soviet Union
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Computer Programme Protection in the U.S.S.R.: New Era for Socialist Copyright Law
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Headcrusher
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The Technological Level of Soviet Industry
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L. Armann (Editor)
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Technical progress and Soviet economic development
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Suspensions
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Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain
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Victor P. Petrov (Goodreads Author)
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We Computers: A Ghazal Novel
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Hamid Ismailov (Goodreads Author)
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The author Ismailov is living in exile (RU, UK) since 1990s for political reasons.
I added the book again later because its inclusion in the list is debatable and not clearly wrong, though, is it? (Uzbekistan, formalist language games, western tech influence, 'we computers' text processors, devine bookkeeping cosmic registry "cybernetics").
Book originally added by Anabel Donnis (194599640)