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Author Usdin, Steven T., 1961-

Title Engineering communism [electronic resource] : how two Americans spied for Stalin and founded the Soviet Silicon Valley / Steven T. Usdin.

Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005.

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Description xiv, 329 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-320) and index.
Contents Initiation -- Washington, spring 1940 -- Fort Monmouth, 1940-1942 -- Western Electric, 1942-1945 -- Sperry Gyroscope, 1946-1948 -- Prague, 1950-1955 -- Special laboratory 11, 1956-1962 -- Zelenograd, the Soviet Silicon Valley, 1962-1965 -- Leningrad Design Bureau, 1965-1973 -- The minifab, 1975-1990 -- The strange case of Iozef (Josef) Berg AKA Joel Barr, 1990-1998.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Berg, Iosef Veniaminovich, 1916-1998.
Staros, Filipp Georgievich, 1918-1979.
Spies -- United States -- Biography.
Electrical engineers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Communists -- United States -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Technology transfer -- Soviet Union.
Zelenograd (Russia) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0300108745 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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