Dismantling Utopia : how information ended the Soviet Union /
By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by Communist leaders. Heirs to an old Russian tradition...
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
1994
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Before: Information Criminal
- 2. Information Control and the Soviet Crisis
- 3. What Price Socialism? An Economy Without Information
- 4. The KGB, Father of Perestroika
- 5. The Press and the Restoration of History
- 6. Television and the Revival of Politics
- 7. A Normal Country: The Pop Culture Explosion
- 8. Letting Go of the Leninist Faith
- 9. After: The Coup-Proof Society