Slava Gerovitch is a historian of Soviet science and technology and the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (MIT Press, 2002), Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). His current project, based on more than 90 oral interviews, is to study the “parallel social infrastructure” of Soviet mathematics, which the mathematical community created to circumvent political and administrative barriers at official academic institutions.