Table of Contents

The First Calculating Devices in Russia - Machines for the Comparison of Philosophical Ideas - Military Machines and Other Computers - Cybernetics and Information Sciences in Russia - Political, Social and Economic Conditions - Biographical/Bibliographical Notes on Significant Engineers and Scientists

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Soviet Information Technology behind Space Run and Cold War

About the Author

Georg Trogemann, professor for information sciences in the section for art and media-studies at the Media Art School, Cologne Wolfgang Ernst, guest professor for the history, theory and aesthetics of media at the Institute for Film and Television Studies at the Ruhr-University, Bochum Alexander Nitussov, engineer and translator in Moscow and Cologne