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“daniel m satinsky”

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  • Hammer and Silicon

    The Soviet Diaspora in the US Innovation Economy — Immigration, Innovation, Institutions, Imprinting, and Identity

    by Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J. McCarthy, Daniel M. Satinsky ...
    This deeply personal book tells the untold story of the significant contributions of technical professionals from the former Soviet Union to the US innovation economy, particularly in the sectors of software, social media, biotechnology, and medicine. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, it channels the voices and stories of more than 150 professionals who emigrated from 11 of the 15 former Soviet ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • How Not to Network a Nation

    The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

    by Benjamin Peters ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Wary Embrace: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

    What the China-Russia relationship means for the world

    by Bobo Lo ...
    ?With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics?In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances are deceptive. Beijing and Moscow have shown no capacity to cooperate on grand strategy or establish new ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Losing Pravda

    Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia

    by Natalia Roudakova ...
    What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media analysis, moral and political theory this book examines the unravelling of professional journalism in Russia over the past twenty-five years, and its effects on society. It argues that, contrary to widespread assumptions, late Soviet-era journalists shared a cultural contract with their audiences, which ensured that ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

    Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

    by Julie Hemment ...
    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind Over Media

    Propaganda Education for a Digital Age

    by Renee Hobbs ...
    Winner of the AAP 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences.Propaganda is inescapable. It’s everywhere. Students need to analyze, resist, critique—and create.Media literacy educators have always insisted that we are both creators and receivers of ... ... Read more

    $22.59 USD

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  • No Illusions

    The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders

    by Ellen Mickiewicz ...
    How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating tables, political and otherwise? No Illusions: The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Privatizing Poland

    Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor

    by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Does Putin Have to Die?

    The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine

    by Ilya Ponomarev, Gregg Stebben ...
    The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine.To understand the significance of this book, Does Putin Have to Die?, you must first understand the significance of the author:Ilya Ponomarev was a member of the Russian Parliament, or State Duma, from 2007–2016.In 2014, he was the only member of the Russian Parliament to vote against the annexation of Crimea.However, this was not ... Read more

    $21.50 USD

  • Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era

    by Natalya Chernyshova ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state’s efforts to improve living standards, and shows how mass consumption was often used as an instrument of legitimacy, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Socialist Good Life

    Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe

    Edited by Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincyte, Zsuzsu Gille ...
    "First-class, rigorously researched, richly documented, and thought-provoking" essays on the consumer experience in socialist Eastern Europe (Graham H. Roberts, author of Material Culture in Russia and the USSR).As communist regimes denigrated Western countries for widespread unemployment and consumer excess, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Balkan Cyberia

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

    by Victor Petrov ...
    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, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at ... Read more

    $41.99 USD