Download back issue of Baltic Worlds

Issue 2024, 4: Download.
Would you like to contribute to Baltic Worlds?
Click here!
Follow us on Facebook!
- Belarus
- Communism
- democracy
- election
- Estonia
- Gender
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Russia
- Soviet
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- all tags

cybernetics

3 articles tagged with cybernetics were found.

Design of Electronic/Electrical Systems in the Soviet Union from Khrushchev’s Thaw to Gorbachev’s Perestroika

In the 1960s, the Soviets took up a rivalry with the US in a hitherto new field, industrial design. ElektroMera was a grandiose effort to produce utilities for everyday use: an effort that nonetheless was never realized in the form of finished products.

By Margareta Tillberg July 1, 2010

Dissertation review. Making culture governable

+ Egle Rindzeviciute. Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II. Linköping 2008 (Linköping Studies in Arts and Science 437. Theme Q, Culture Studies, Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture) 277 pages.

By Barbara Czarniawska February 18, 2010

The Cybernetics Scare and the Origins of the Internet

Cybernetics was created in the Soviet Union in the ’50s; it celebrated technical progress as the future of mankind. Cybernetics proceeded from the encounter between human and machine.

Essay by Slava Gerovitch February 11, 2010

Baltic Worlds covers; the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, CentralAsia, Caucasus and the Balkan area.
Articles listed by country you find here.>>
Scholars in Ukraine write about the war.
Read voices from Ukraine!>>
reviews
1. Challenging the nationalist hegemony The third generation displaced persons and new approaches to the difficult past
  
  Review article of Kassandra Larysa Luciuk, Making Ukrainian Canadians: Identity, Politics, and Power in Cold War Canada, (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2021) xv+338 pages.
2. Lake Ladoga. A transnational history
  
  Lake Ladoga: The Coastal History of the Greatest Lake in Europe. Maria Lähteenmäki and Isaac Land, eds.,(Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2023). Studia Fennica Historica vol. 27, 233 pages.
3. The archaeologist Marija Gimbutas. Grand theories at the outskirts of modernity
  
  Marija Gimbutas: Transnational Biography, Feminist Reception, and the Controversy of Goddess Archaeology, Rasa Navickaitė (Routledge: London, 2022) 244 pages
4. Competitive victimhood. Ethnonational conflicts and possibilities for reconciliation
  
  Analyzing Competitive Victimhood: Narratives of Recognition and Non-recognition in the Pursuit of Reconciliation, Çağla Demirel, (Doctoral dissertation: Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, 2023). 187 pages
5. Four European cities in change. Chișinău, Černivci, L’viv, and Wrocław
  
  At home or abroad? Chișinău, Černivci, L’viv and Wrocław: Living with historical changes to borders and national identities. Bo Larsson, (ed.) (Lund: Universus Academic Press, 2020), 560 pages.
6. All reviews

Download back issue of Baltic Worlds