How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet @ E.flux

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Author Benjamin Peters has just released a book about the "uneasy" history of the Soviet internet, published by MIT Press. Apparently, the internet in the USSR developed with fits and starts due to various competing private interests, which is distinct from that of American's ARPANET, which was state-funded. "The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists," writes Peters. Read the intro to "How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of Soviet Internet" in partial below, or the full intro via _First Monday_ here.