Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, And The Information Age Behind The Iron Curtain

Cover
Half title
Series title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliterations and Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction | The Worlds of the Bulgarian Computer
	Two Prisms: Computers And Small States
	What Worlds?
	Structure
1 | The Conjuncture: The Road to the Bulgarian Electronics Industry
	Always the Periphery?
	The Congress of Victory
	Bankruptcy
	Together Against Capitalism
	Fathering Bulgarian Electronics
	Existing Capacities
	The State Of Socialist Computing And Cybernetics
2 | The Captive Market: The Rise and Apogee of an Industry
	The First Bulgarian Computer
	Calculating Success
	Big In Japan
	From Piecemeal To Policy
	Besting Your Teacher
	The Payoff
3 | Access Denied: Spies, Technologies, and Circulation across the Iron Curtain
	The Barrier: Cocom And The Rationale Of STI Work
	The Rise Of The Spies
	Cooperation In An Electronics Key
	In The Service Of The Nation
	The Symbiosis
4 | Roses and Lotuses: Bulgaria’s Electronic Entanglement with India
	Facing South
	Profit And Prestige: Electronic Paths In The Global South
	The Roses Meets The Lotus
	Computers Versus Workers: The Indian Situation
	Enter Bulgaria: The 1970s
	From Personal Computers To Supercomputers: The 1980s
	Learning To Advertise
5 | Automatic for the People: The Scientific-Technical Revolution and Society
	STR As The New Dogma
	The March Of The Machines
	Networks
	Microprocessors And Robots
	Rational Control And The Masses
6 | The Socialist Cyborg: Education, Intellectuals, and Culture
	Training The Technical Intellectuals
	Information -Age Philosophy
	A Computer For Whom?
	The New Laws Of Robotics
7 | Networked and Plugged in: Computer Priests and their Pathways
	International Professionals
	The Socialist Business Class
	Reform And Transformation
	Cyborg Afterlives
	Networks
Conclusion | The Uneven Future
Appendix A | Snapshot of Automation in 1989
Appendix B | Types of Machines Produced
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Conclusion
Index