In Balkan Cyberia (MIT Press, 2023), Victor Petrov tells the story of how Bulgaria in the 1960s made a high-risk strategic bet on the emerging electronics industrial-technological sector, revealing links between capitalism and communism. Vedran Duančić writes that whilst the book lends itself to different readings, it speaks of the contingent and fragile nature of success stories such as the Bulgarian leap into computerized socialist modernity.