Minding the Gap: Western Export Controls and Soviet Technology Policy in the 1960s

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dc.contributor.advisorDavid-Fox, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorCappiello, Diana Marieen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-06T05:46:32Z
dc.date.available2011-07-06T05:46:32Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the origins and evolution of Western export controls intended to limit the transfer of high technology, particularly computers, to communist countries, and how technology policy within the Soviet Union and other communist states was shaped by these controls. This work intends to demonstrate that Western attempts to control trade in high technology were responsive to changing economic and political realities and that changes in export controls produced corresponding changes in policy within the USSR. Ultimately, policies on both sides served to maintain and widen the technology gap between East and West far more dramatically than anticipated, deepening the economic stagnation of Eastern Europe and hastening the collapse of communism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11491
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRussian Historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory of Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledInternational Relationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCOCOMen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCold War diplomacyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledexport controlsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSoviet computingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSoviet scienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtechnology transferen_US
dc.titleMinding the Gap: Western Export Controls and Soviet Technology Policy in the 1960sen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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