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

History and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-350

  Gerovitch, Slava ^a  

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Author keywords

Computers; Cybernetics; Economics; Management; Networks; Soviet Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249117064     PISSN: 07341512     EISSN: 14772620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07341510802044736     Document Type: Article

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