Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Foreword; 1. The Gorbachev Challenge; The New Agenda; Postindustrial Goals; Computers and Economic Reform; The Yuppie Factor; Glasnost Extended; Controlling the New Machines; 2. The Telephone Connection; Expansion Plans; Soviet Telephone Realities; Telephones and Computers; Domestic Satellite Connection; 3. Computers: Closing the Gap?; From Stalin to Gorbachev; Opportunities and Barriers; 4. The Future of Communications in the USSR; The Economic Priority; The Social Impact; The Western Response
Appendix 1: Pravda Announcement of the 1985 Decisions on Telecommunications ExpansionAt the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers; Appendix 2: The Organization of Soviet Information Systems and Resources; Structure and Functions; Primary Information Processed; Scope of Information Services; Computer Systems; Automated Data Exchange; CMEA Systems for STI; Appendix 3: Soviet Official's Views on National Computerization Progress; Opening Moves; Not Enough Computers; Joint Projects Involved; Even More Strategic Role; Strengthening Educational System
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Appendix 4: Communism in a High-tech Era: A Soviet ViewNotes
