From Russia with code : : programming migrations in post-Soviet times / / edited by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Lepinay.

While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (385 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Before the collapse : programming cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko
  • From lurker to ninja : creating an IT community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova
  • For code and country : civic hackers in contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina
  • At the periphery of the empire : Vladivostok's IT industry / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva
  • Kazan connected : "IT-ing" up a province / Alina Kontareva
  • Hackerspaces and technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova
  • Siberian software developers / Andrey Indukaev
  • E-Estonia reprogrammed : nation branding and children coding / Daria Savchenko
  • Post-Soviet ecosystems of IT / Dmitry Zhikharevich
  • Migrating step by step : Russian computer scientists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk
  • Brain drain and Boston's "upper-middle tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West
  • Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova
  • Russian programmers in Finland : self-presentation in migration narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina.