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Ratio Club
Cybernetics in Chile and Project Cybersyn, Stafford Beer
Soviet Reception of Cybernetics, smear campaign from 1951-1955, and rehabilitation efforts after Stalin's death from 1954-1959.
Kitov discovers Wiener's Cybernetics, shows to Lyapunov, encourages to write paper with Sergei Sobolev.
Problems of Philosophy editors want permission from Communist Party
Saraya Square wants to do "public lectures" first.
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Cybernetics in Chile and Project Cybersyn, Stafford Beer
Soviet Reception of Cybernetics, smear campaign from 1951-1955, and rehabilitation efforts after Stalin's death from 1954-1959.
Kitov discovers Wiener's Cybernetics, shows to Lyapunov, encourages to write paper with Sergei Sobolev.
Problems of Philosophy editors want permission from Communist Party
Saraya Square wants to do "public lectures" first.
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Institute of Cybernetics and CEMI
1965: Fedorenko and Glushkov meet with Ministry of Defense
1970: Politburo's review of OGAS
1972: Glushkov's plane sabotaged
1977: The State declassifies the OGAS project
Glushkov believed bureaucracy could be reformed with tech, but only with commensurate social and economic reforms.
Mikhail Molseevich Botvinnik and Soviet Chess
Summary and analysis
Outline of Soviet Government
— Nov 29, 2025 05:16AM
1965: Fedorenko and Glushkov meet with Ministry of Defense
1970: Politburo's review of OGAS
1972: Glushkov's plane sabotaged
1977: The State declassifies the OGAS project
Glushkov believed bureaucracy could be reformed with tech, but only with commensurate social and economic reforms.
Mikhail Molseevich Botvinnik and Soviet Chess
Summary and analysis
Outline of Soviet Government
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Viktor Glushkov's early life
OGAS project's vision and early proposals/history
Lebedev's laboratory, Glushkov taking it over, Cybertonia
— Nov 22, 2025 04:22AM
OGAS project's vision and early proposals/history
Lebedev's laboratory, Glushkov taking it over, Cybertonia
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Kitov's 1959 "red book" letter the first to propose a national civilian network anywhere, subsequent show trial
Military-civilian divide
1959.10: Sputnik I spurs the creation of ARPANET
1973: ARPA funding cut, researchers migrate to industry (p.93)
US: less military-civilian divide
Paul Baran
Aleksandr Kharkevich: ESS, Kharkevich's law
N.I. Kovalev's rational system
Mapping of technological and political systems
— Nov 15, 2025 04:09AM
Military-civilian divide
1959.10: Sputnik I spurs the creation of ARPANET
1973: ARPA funding cut, researchers migrate to industry (p.93)
US: less military-civilian divide
Paul Baran
Aleksandr Kharkevich: ESS, Kharkevich's law
N.I. Kovalev's rational system
Mapping of technological and political systems
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Anatoly Kitov
US SAGE system, Soviet response with System A, Tetiva and the space surveillance system.
Kitov's "Digital Computing Machines" the first Soviet book on computers.
— Nov 08, 2025 02:47AM
US SAGE system, Soviet response with System A, Tetiva and the space surveillance system.
Kitov's "Digital Computing Machines" the first Soviet book on computers.
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Soviet Heterarchy, formal vs. informal economy, dependence of private life and the formal economy on informal economy connections.
The Soviet State embodied informal bargaining, even Stalin used it.
Separate telephone lines to the same supervisor.
Hiring and promotion often relied on bonds and "career friendships"
Bureaucrats and politicians scrambled their own orders to preserve their personal careers.
— Nov 08, 2025 02:26AM
The Soviet State embodied informal bargaining, even Stalin used it.
Separate telephone lines to the same supervisor.
Hiring and promotion often relied on bonds and "career friendships"
Bureaucrats and politicians scrambled their own orders to preserve their personal careers.
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Descriptions of Soviet Command economy and heterarchy, Gosplan and Gossnab.
Short history of the Russian Revolution.
Coordination between Gosplan, Gossnab was taxing.
ZIL/Likachev factory
Khruschev's decentralizing
Alex Galloway: Control does not necessarily dissipate with decentralized networks
Economic camps: Orthodox, Liberal (Libermanist), Cybernetic
Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986)
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Short history of the Russian Revolution.
Coordination between Gosplan, Gossnab was taxing.
ZIL/Likachev factory
Khruschev's decentralizing
Alex Galloway: Control does not necessarily dissipate with decentralized networks
Economic camps: Orthodox, Liberal (Libermanist), Cybernetic
Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986)
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Andrey Kolmogorov, Aksel' Berg and the est. of Council of Cybernetics in 1959.
Aksel' Berg's series Cybernetics: In the Service of Communism caused debate internally and concern externally.
Norbert Wiener's 1960 visit to Moscow, his warning. Many of his books were translated to Russian and are popular today.
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Aksel' Berg's series Cybernetics: In the Service of Communism caused debate internally and concern externally.
Norbert Wiener's 1960 visit to Moscow, his warning. Many of his books were translated to Russian and are popular today.
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History of Cybernetics, Macy Conferences
Norbert Wiener's book Cybernetics, his concept of feedback
Markets, Hierarchy and Warren MCulloch's concept of Heterarchy
Claude E. Shannon's work at Bell Labs, theory of communication of data influencing computing in the 70s.
Post-war receoption of Cybernetics in the west
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Norbert Wiener's book Cybernetics, his concept of feedback
Markets, Hierarchy and Warren MCulloch's concept of Heterarchy
Claude E. Shannon's work at Bell Labs, theory of communication of data influencing computing in the 70s.
Post-war receoption of Cybernetics in the west
