THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1990-1992 During the last months of 1991 the Soviet empire simply disintegrated into its constituent republics and was finally given a decent burial on December 25. The economic situation in the former union grew more and more catastrophic, and ethnic tensions worsened. President Yeltsin of Russia stood forth as the most decisive leader of an extremely difficult transition era. This sudden collapse of a vast multinational empire and superpower was virtually …showed first 75 words of 1703 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1703 total…more than half of the total market in electronics; and it absorbs more than a third of all computer capacity. Government has not been willing to give up a coordinating and directing role in the development of information technology. It is the military connection that we can perhaps most intimately see the link between government and the information society. From very first development of the semiconductor industry to the star Wars and Strategic Computing projects.