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Technology: Beyond the 'InterNyet'

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Michael D. Gordin reviews a history of the Soviets' failed national computer network.

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  1. Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University in New Jersey. His most recent book is Scientific Babel.,

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