How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
Benjamin Peters — How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (2016)Benjamin Peters · 2016 · Book · chapters on OGAS, 1962–1970EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0336 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“In 1962 Glushkov proposed a three-tier computer network (one central centre in Moscow, several hundred regional centres, up to 20,000 local centres) for accounting, planning and governing the Soviet economy, including electronic payments instead of paper money.”
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