From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

Published by Duke University Press 2019

From Russia with Code

Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

Edited by: Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003342

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About this book

The contributors to From Russia with Code examine Russian computer scientists, programmers, and hackers in and outside of Russia within the context of new international labor markets and the economic, technological, and political changes in post-Soviet Russia.

Author / Editor information

Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law, Science and Technology Studies, and History at the University of California, Davis.

Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).

Reviews

-- Loren Graham, Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

-- Benjamin Peters, author of How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Russian Economies of Codes Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. CODING COLLECTIVES
One. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union Ksenia Tatarchenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Two. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an it Community at Yandex Marina Fedorova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Three. For Code and Country: Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia Ksenia Ermoshina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part II. OUTWARD-LOOKING ENCLAVES
Four. At the Periphery of the Empire: Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok’s it Community Aleksandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Five. Kazan Connected: “it-ing Up” a Province Alina Kontareva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Six. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow Aleksandra Simonova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Seven. Siberian Software Developers Andrey Indukaev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Eight. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding Daria Savchenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Part III: INTERLUDE
Nine. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT Dmitrii Zhikharevich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Part IV: BRIDGES AND MISMATCHES
Ten. Migrating Step by Step: Russian Computer Scientists in the UK Irina Antoschyuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Eleven. Brain Drain and Boston’s “Upper-Middle Tech” Diana Kurkovsky West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Twelve. Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel Marina Fedorova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Thirteen. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narratives Lyubava Shatokhina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 384

eBook

Published: March 14, 2019
ISBN: 9781478003342