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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

Other projects carried out by the institution 

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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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

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