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 · the 1970 Politburo reviewEstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0337 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“The Politburo heard Glushkov on 1 October 1970; Finance Minister Garbuzov opposed the full plan and favoured a narrower network of computing centres, so OGAS was not adopted as proposed.”
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2Why the forgotten Soviet internet was doomed from the start
Chris Baraniuk — Why the forgotten Soviet internet was doomed from the start (2016)Chris Baraniuk · 2016 · Web pageEvidence that contradicts
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