While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their
interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are
ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and
often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past
glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred
in-depth interviews, the contributors to From Russia with Code
trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations, and
lives of Russian IT professionals at home and abroad, showing how
they function as key figures in the tense political and ideological
environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia.
Among other topics, they analyze coders' creation of both
transnational communities and local networks of political
activists; Moscow's use of IT funding to control peripheral
regions; brain drain and the experiences of coders living abroad in
the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Finland; and the
possible meanings of Russian computing systems in a heterogeneous
nation and industry. Highlighting the centrality of computer
scientists to post-Soviet economic mobilization in Russia, the
contributors offer new insights into the difficulties through which
a new entrepreneurial culture emerges in a rapidly changing world.
Contributors. Irina Antoschyuk, Mario Biagioli, Ksenia Ermoshina,
Marina Fedorova, Andrey Indukaev, Alina Kontareva, Diana Kurkovsky,
Vincent Lepinay, Alexandra Masalskaya, Daria Savchenko, Liubava
Shatokhina, Alexandra Simonova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Zinaida
Vasilyeva, Dimitrii Zhikharevich
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