Gorbachev's Information Revolution Controlling Glasnost In A New Electronic Era

This book analyzes Gorbachev's perestroika and its relationship to the information revolution. It examines the Gorbachev initiatives in scientific and technological sectors and their implications for Soviet society as well as for the world beyond Soviet borders.

Foreword -- The Gorbachev Challenge -- The Telephone Connection -- Computers: Closing the Gap? -- The Future of Communications in the USSR -- Pravda Announcement of the 1985 Decisions on Soviet Telecommunications Expansion -- The Organization of Soviet Information Systems and Resources -- Soviet Official’s Views on National Computerisation Progress -- Communism in a High-tech Era: A Soviet View

Dizard, Wilson P.