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how information ended the Soviet Union
By Shane, Scott
"Dismantling utopia" was published by I.R. Dee in 1994 - Chicago, it has 324 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Dismantling utopia” Metadata:
- Title: Dismantling utopia
- Author: Shane, Scott
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 324
- Publisher: I.R. Dee
- Publish Date: 1994
- Publish Location: Chicago
“Dismantling utopia” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Politics and government - Communication policy - Soviet union, history, 1953-1991 - Soviet union, politics and government, 1985-1991 - Freedom of information
- Places: Soviet Union
- Time: 1985-1991
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 324 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL1436461M - OL2947781W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 29563843
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 93048710
- ISBN-10: 1566630487
- All ISBNs: 1566630487
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By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by Communist leaders. Heirs to an old Russian tradition of censorship, they had banned photocopiers, prohibited accurate maps and controlled word-for-word even the scripts of stand-up comedians. Hoping to "renew socialism" and save a Communist system in decay, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power determined to lift restrictions on the control of communications and information. What happened next is the subject of Scott Shane's brilliant account in Dismantling Utopia. On the scene in Moscow as correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, he witnessed firsthand how Gorbachev experiment produced a revolution that proved fatal to his party, his government, and his own political career. Shane's compellingly readable story is filled with memorable characters, revealing vignettes, and striking statistics. Gorbachev scarcely anticipated the information revolution "that between 1987 and 1991 swept across Soviet existence, touching every nook of daily life, battering hoary myths and lies, and ultimately eroding the foundations of Soviet power," Shane writes, "Information, the forbidden fruit, was around every corner, on everyone's mind - the young woman on the Metro with her copy of the journal Nory Mir bent open to the latest installment of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; scores of Muscovites elbowing one another to get a glimpse of the latest copy of Moscow News, pinned behind glass each Wednesday night at Pushkin Square; friends hustling you into their apartment direct to the TV to catch the latest sensation."
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