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1 online resource (384 p.)
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9781478093220
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While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews, the contributors to From Russia with Code trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals at home and abroad, showing how they function as key figures in the tense political and ideological environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia. Among other topics, they analyze coders' creation of both transnational communities and local networks of political activists; Moscow's use of IT funding to control peripheral regions; brain drain and the experiences of coders living abroad in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Finland; and the possible meanings of Russian computing systems in a heterogeneous nation and industry. Highlighting the centrality of computer scientists to post-Soviet economic mobilization in Russia, the contributors offer new insights into the difficulties through which a new entrepreneurial culture emerges in a rapidly changing world.Contributors. Irina Antoschyuk, Mario Biagioli, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marina Fedorova, Andrey Indukaev, Alina Kontareva, Diana Kurkovsky, Vincent Lépinay, Alexandra Masalskaya, Daria Savchenko, Liubava Shatokhina, Alexandra Simonova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Zinaida Vasilyeva, Dimitrii Zhikharevich
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction RUSSIAN ECONOMIES OF CODES --
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Part I CODING COLLECTIVES --
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Chapter one BEFORE THE COLLAPSE Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union --
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Chapter two FROM LURKER TO NINJA Creating an IT Community at Yandex --
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Chapter three FOR CODE AND COUNTRY Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia --
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Part II OUTWARD-LOOKING ENCLAVES --
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Chapter four AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE EMPIRE Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok's IT Community --
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Chapter five KAZAN CONNECTED "IT-ing Up" a Province --
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Chapter six HACKERSPACES AND TECHNOPARKS IN MOSCOW --
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Chapter seven SIBERIAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS --
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Chapter eight E-ESTONIA REPROGRAMMED Nation Branding and Children Coding --
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Part III INTERLUDE Russian Maps --
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Chapter nine POST-SOVIET ECOSYSTEMS OF IT --
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Part IV BRIDGES AND MISMATCHES --
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Chapter ten MIGRATING STEP BY STEP Russian Computer Scientists in the UK --
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Chapter eleven BRAIN DRAIN AND BOSTON'S "UPPER-MIDDLE TECH" --
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Chapter twelve JEWS IN RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS IN ISRAEL --
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Chapter thirteen RUSSIAN PROGRAMMERS IN FINLAND: SELF-PRESENTATION IN MIGRATION NARRATIVE --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
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DOI:
10.1515/9781478093220
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