Balkan Cyberia Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain

• Main Author: Petrov, Victor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023
• Series: History of Computing
• Subjects: Information technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; Computer Science/History of Computing; Science, Technology & Society/History of Technology; Economics/Economic History; Business/Business Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain-and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future.Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, a...