I don't pretend to know how to plug my own book among so many folks I admire in the field, so I'll do it once and get out of the way. Here goes:  

MIT Press released How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet this summer. Since then it's been reviewed widely and warmly in five languages and in popular outlets from Nature to Gizmodo, with excerpts in First Monday (review links here). 

Aeon.co is featuring a popular version of the story today. (A great editing experience, by the way, if you don't already know them: Sam Dresser is a wizard.) Check out my first feature with Aeon here: 

Aeon: "How the Soviets invented the internet and why it didn't work" 

The book itself can be found here: Soviet Internet (First Monday excerpts). 

Feel free to share (I'm at @bjpeters) and holler back if I can say more. 

It's my first contribution to the emerging field of comparative network history, and it owes much to Slava Gerovitch, Eden Medina, and many, many others on this list, so the pleasure is genuinely mine.  

Thanks, and please enjoy! 

Ben