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• Title:
  Between Stalinism and Infrastructural Globalism: The International Geophysical Year (1957–8) in Czechoslovakia, Poland and German Democratic Republic
• Creator:
  Olšáková, Doubravka
• Description:
  This article analyses the political, scientific, and social circumstances of the beginning of infrastructural globalism in Eastern Europe, using the example of the International Geophysical Year (1957–8). This research programme led to the establishment of the first large global infrastructures operating in Eastern Europe, i.e. behind the Iron Curtain, under the auspices of international organizations (UNESCO, ICSU). Following the Geneva conference in 1955, large infrastructures and ‘big data’ science were supposed to become part of Soviet science diplomacy. The paper shows that while the Soviet Union and East-European countries accepted the challenge and became part of the global scientific community, nevertheless specific features of data and information control remained under the strict surveillance of the USSR.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Acta Poloniae Historica
• Date:
  2017.11.24
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Acta Poloniae Historica; Vol. 115 (2017); 97-122;
  Acta Poloniae Historica; Tom 115 (2017); 97-122;
  2450-8462;
  0001-6829
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Historii PAN
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/APH/article/view/APH.2017.115.04/13401
• Subject:
  Cold War;
  Eastern Europe;
  Cold War science;
  infrastructural globalism;
  international geophysical year;
  GDR;
  Poland;
  Czechoslovakia
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/APH/article/view/APH.2017.115.04
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text