Balkan cyberia : : Cold War computing, Bulgarian modernization, and the information age behind the Iron Curtain / / Victor Petrov.
"Original take on the history of socialist Bulgaria, examined through the prism of computers to make broader claims about political, economic, intelligence, social, and cultural life in Bulgaria, and by extension, the Soviet bloc and state socialism in general"--
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2023] |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of computing
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (417 pages) |
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