From Newspeak to Cyberspeak
by Slava Gerovitch · first published 2002
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…with Soviet culture. I can't think of one single book that gives a good overview of Soviet engineering, but some good ones to start with might be Graham's The Ghost of the Executed Engineer, Gerovitch's From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, and Idov's Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design. I think most of the really interesting examples are in military technology, but unfortunately I don't know any good books surveying that area.…
on “The AK-47” ↗…introduction", The Human Use of Human Beings. If you're interested in the history then Ronald Kline's The Cybernetic Moment (John Hopkins, 2015) is the cannonical American history, and Slava Gerovitch's From Newspeak to Cyberspeak (MIT, 2002) is the Soviet. Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries (MIT, 2002) covers its role in Allende's Chile, but compared to the US or Soviet this is marginal. The Cybernetic Hypothesis is a very…
on “The cybernetics scare and the origins of the Internet (2009)” ↗Cybernetics did eventually become a hot fashion in the USSR. There is a good history of this, Slava Gerovitch's From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (2002).
on “Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video]” ↗+1 for Red Plenty. It's a fantastic book. For nonfiction, the book "From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics" is also excellent.
on “Khrushchev visits IBM” ↗