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Scientific-technical intelligence of PPR: organization, functions, efficiency, and cooperation with its counterparts in states - members of Comecon in the area of acquisition of innovative technologies for the Polish economy in 1956-1989

2017/26/D/HS3/00250

Keywords:

Intelligence science technology PPR Comecon embargo black market licensing Cold War

Descriptors:

  • HS3_2: Social history
  • HS3_3: Political history (incl. political systems)
  • HS3_4: Economic history

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Historyczny

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Mirosław Sikora 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: SONATA 13 - announced on 2017-06-14

Amount awarded: 82 600 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-06-14

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-01-13

Project duration:: 31 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (2)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)
  1. From promising agent to suspicious Francophile. Professor Stefan Węgrzyn and his contacts with professor Jean Charles Gille through the lens of the Polish (counter)intelligence (1958-1976)
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Academic press:
    History of Communism in Europe / No 9 Breaking the wall: A national and transnational perspective on East-European science (1945-1990) (rok: 2018, tom: 9, strony: 65-85), Wydawca: Zetabooks, Bucharest
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  2. The only one worldwide successful company" in Communist Poland? Scientific-technical Intelligence and its role in technology transfer 1971-1989
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Academic press:
    ICON (rok: 2020, tom: 25 no. 1, strony: 14215), Wydawca: International Committee for the History of Technology
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  3. Foreign Intelligence and Pharmaceutical Industry in Poland. Part 1
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Academic press:
    Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History / Вестник СПбГУ. История (rok: 2020, tom: vol. 65 issue 4, strony: 1202-1217), Wydawca: Univeristy of Sant Petersburg
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.411 - link to the publication
  4. INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT OF CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY (INCLUDING MACHINE INDUSTRY) AND The ENERGY SECTOR IN THE POLISH PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC IN THE YEARS 1970–1990
    Authors:
    Miroslaw Sikora
    Academic press:
    STUDIA HISTORIAE OECONOMICAE (rok: 2018, tom: 36, strony: 143-173), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza Poznan
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2478/sho-2018-0009 - link to the publication
  5. Foreign Intelligence and Pharmaceutical Industry in Poland. Part 2
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Academic press:
    Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History / Вестник СПбГУ. История (rok: 2021, tom: vol 66 issue 1, strony: 260-278), Wydawca: University of Saint Petersburg
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.411 - link to the publication
  6. Polska Droga do RIAD. Uniformizacja systemów komputerowych w RWPG, 1960–1970
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Academic press:
    Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki (rok: 2019, tom: 64 nr 4, strony: 115-150), Wydawca: Instytut Historii Nauki PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.033.11041 - link to the publication
  7. Spies, Brokers and the State: Intelligence Operations and the Polish Computer Industry in the 1980s
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Academic press:
    Proceedings of the IEEE (rok: 2022, tom: Vol. 110, No. 1, strony: 210-218), Wydawca: IEEE
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  1. Intriguing possibilities. China as emerging commercial partner of Poland during the 1970s and 1980s
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Conference:
    Eastern European Communist Countries towards the Far East during the Cold War (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej/Uniwersytet Jagielloński
    Data:
    konferencja 2019.06.6-7
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. Cooperating with Moscow, Stealing in California: Poland's Legal and Illicit Acquisition of Microelectronics Knowhow from 1960 to 1990
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Conference:
    Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe. IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: Springer
    Data:
    konferencja 19-21 września 2018
    Status:
    Published
  1. Imagining the future role of computers in the shadow of communism: the Polish People's Republic from the 1950s to 1990
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora, Adam Dziuba
    Book:
    Prophets of computing, ed. Dick van Lente (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: ACM
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. Książka monograficzna
    Authors:
    Mirosław Sikora
    Book:
    Black Box. Wywiad jako instrument transferu technologii i wsparcia decyzji ekonomicznych w PRL 1955-1990 (rok: 2021, tom: 1, strony: 1040), Wydawca: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
    Status:
    Published

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