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Book Title
Balkan Cyberia : Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and
ISBN
9780262545129
Subject Area
Mathematics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, History
Publication Name
Balkan Cyberia : Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain
Publisher
MIT Press
Item Length
9 in
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, General, History
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Victor Petrov
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
424 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262545128
ISBN-13
9780262545129
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20057242368

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
424 Pages
Publication Name
Balkan Cyberia : Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, General, History
Type
Textbook
Author
Victor Petrov
Subject Area
Mathematics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-030019
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
004.009497709046
Table Of Content
List of Abbreviations ix Note on Transliterations and Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Worlds of the Bulgarian Computer 1 1 The Conjuncture: The Road to the Bulgarian Electronics Industry 27 2 The Captive Market: The Rise and Apogee of an Industry 57 3 Access Denied: Spies, Technologies, and Circulation Across the Iron Curtain 107 4 Roses and Lotuses: Bulgaria's Electronic Entanglement with India 141 5 Automatic for the People: The Scientific-Technical Revolution and Society 183 6 The Socialist Cyborg: Education, Intellectuals, and Culture 227 7 Networked and Plugged In: Computer Priests and Their Pathways 269 Conclusion: The Uneven Future 307 Appendix A: Snapshot of Automation in 1989 323 Appendix B: Types of Machines Produced 325 Notes 329 Index 379
Synopsis
Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at great cost to the established order. In Balkan Cyberia, Victor Petrov elevates a deeply researched, local story of ambition into an essential history of global innovation, ideological conflict, and exchange. Granted tremendous freedom by the Politburo and backed by a concerted state secret intelligence effort, a new privileged class of technical intellectuals and managers rose to prominence in Bulgaria in the 1960s. Plugged in to transnational business and professional networks, they strove to realize the party's radical dreams of utopian automation, and Bulgaria would come to manufacture up to half of the Eastern Bloc's electronics. Yet, as Petrov shows, the export-oriented nature of the industry also led to the disruption of party rule. Technicians, now thinking with and through computers, began to recast the dominant intellectual discourse within a framework of reform, while technocratic managers translated their newfound political clout into economic power that served them well before and after the revolutions of 1989., How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain-and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future. Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at great cost to the established order. In Balkan Cyberia , Victor Petrov elevates a deeply researched, local story of ambition into an essential history of global innovation, ideological conflict, and exchange. Granted tremendous freedom by the Politburo and backed by a concerted state secret intelligence effort, a new, privileged class of technical intellectuals and managers rose to prominence in Bulgaria in the 1960s. Plugged in to transnational business and professional networks, they strove to realize the party's radical dreams of utopian automation, and Bulgaria would come to manufacture up to half of the Eastern Bloc's electronics. Yet, as Petrov shows, the export-oriented nature of the industry also led to the disruption of party rule. Technicians, now thinking with and through computers, began to recast the dominant intellectual discourse within a framework of reform, while technocratic managers translated their newfound political clout into economic power that served them well before and after the revolutions of 1989. Balkan Cyberia reveals the extension of economic and political networks of influence far past the reputed fall of communism, along with the pivotal role small countries played in geopolitical games at the time. Through the prism of the Bulgarian computer industry, the true nature of the socialist international economy, and indeed the links between capitalism and communism, emerge.
LC Classification Number
QA76.17.P46 2023
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