TY - BOOK ID - 14467743 TI - The Red Web: The Struggle between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries AU - Soldatov, Andrei AU - Borogan, Irina PY - 2015 SN - 9781610395731 DB - UniCat KW - INTERNET--GOVERNMENT POLICY--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) KW - INTERNET--POLITICAL ASPECTS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) KW - ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14467743 AB - Drawing from scores of interviews personally conducted with numerous prominent officials in the Ministry of Communications and web-savvy activists challenging the state, the authors peel back the history of advanced surveillance systems in Russia. From research laboratories in Soviet-era labor camps, to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and Internet communications in the 1990s, to the present day, their incisive and alarming investigation into the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state exposes just how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of repression and geopolitical warfare. Dissidents, oligarchs, and some of the world's most dangerous hackers collide in the uniquely Russian virtual world of the Red Web. ER -