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 · IntroductionDisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0338 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Peters argues OGAS failed chiefly through unregulated competition among Soviet institutions, not for lack of technology or private property; other accounts add cost and Glushkov's death in 1982.”
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Why the forgotten Soviet internet was doomed from the start
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