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Author:

Usdin, Steven T., 1961-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Berg, Iosef Veniaminovich,--1916-1998.
Staros, Filipp Georgievich,--1918-1979.
Spies--United States.--Biography.
Electric engineers--Soviet Union--Biography.
Communists--United States.--Biography.
Espionage, Soviet--United States--History--20th century.
Technology transfer--Soviet Union.
Zelenograd (Russia)--History.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780300108743
9780300108743 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300108745 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60697020

LCCN:

2005015436

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)