Concepts inMESM and the Beginning of the Computer Era in the Soviet Union

History of computer hardware in Soviet Bloc countries

The history of computing hardware in the former Soviet Bloc is somewhat different from that of the Western world. As a result of the CoCom embargo, computers could not be imported in a large scale from capitalist countries. All computer hardware produced in the socialist countries was either designed locally or derived or copied from Western models by the intelligence agencies, tacitly studied, and reproduced.  more from Wikipedia

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated ¿¿¿¿, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly centralized government and economy. The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused the downfall of the Russian Empire.  more from Wikipedia