..., these two terms are sometimes used interchangeably when speak- ing of the history of computer science and technology in the Soviet Union (see, for instance, Fet 2009). If the success of cybernetics as a public discourse aimed at effectively transforming governmental mentality and practices seems quite...

... Friendship (Druzhba), built between 1959 and 1964, to supply crude oil to Western Europe from the Soviet Union, which was expected to lay the foundations for closer East-West relations in technology transfer (Gestwa 2014, 221). The Soviet Union contracted the pipes and other strategic materials from Italy...

... and hope in technological innovation gripped Soviet leadership. This drove the early-1970s wave of forecasting efforts that ¥owered in the Soviet Union; like many of the enthusiasms of the period, the vogue for forecasting had a manic quality, promising far more than was ever delivered (Rocca 1981; Guth...

.... Backgrounds of SOFE The primary form of economic knowledge in the Soviet Union was polit- ical economy (politekonomiya), the queen of the Soviet social sciences. Political economy stood above, and provided general guidance to, all eco- nomic sciences and their applications. While largely focused on the anal...

... of Sciences Economics Section. This section held peri- odic meetings of the most prominent economists of the Soviet Union and was newly founded in 1963, prior to which economics had been governed in the same section as law and philosophy. The exchange took place between Yakov Kronrod of the Academy...

... of Mathematical Econom- ics in the Postwar Soviet Union: More Than a Method, Less Than a Discipline. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A 63: 1 10. Braverman, Emmanuil M., and Mark J. Levin. 1981. Disequilibrium Models of Eco- nomic Systems (n Russian). Moscow: Nauka. Chervonenkis, Alexey. n.d...

..., is just as absurd as rejecting cybernetics or genetics because someone fancied that these sciences were based on idealism. (Shishkov 1989, 21; emphasis mine) All in all, 1989 marked the peak of the short-lived practical inŒuence of the idea of convergence in the Soviet Union. In his article The Market...

... Accordingly, at least the implementation of the reforms offered the more dogmatic economists some satisfaction. The tightening of internal political controls and intensified attacks on “antisocialist liberal” trends in arts and sciences observed in the Soviet Union in the last year or so offered...

... or fields of endeavor were covered in one way or another by a commemorative study such as “Fifty Years of Soviet Medicine,” or “Fifty Years of Soviet Labor Unions.” The task of describing the fifty years of Soviet economic science was given to Pashkov. .His study is a sad and telling document...

... Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She has published numerous papers on the histori- cal sociology of economic sciences, in particular in relation to economic reforms and to issues of academic internationalization, in the Soviet Union and in France. Martha Lampland is professor of sociology and science...

... Chapel Colloquium . New York: Pergamon Press. Struve, Petr. 1908 . Na raznye temy. Russkaia Mysl' 29.3 : 210 –12. Treml, Vladimir G. 1999 . Censorship, Access, and Influence: Western Sovietology in the Soviet Union . Research series (University of California, Berkeley, International and Area...

... of optimization was developed in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s as part of a broader “mathematical-economic movement.” The latter can be considered a by-product, or a particular field of application, of an interdisciplinary domain that emerged at the intersec- tion of cybernetics, management science...

... these 61. As a result of the secret clauses of the Treaty of Rapallo the Soviet Union received substantial German help with the modernization of its defense industry. See Sutton 1968, ch. 15, ~~German-Russian Military Cooperation and Technology"~ Erickson 1962, ch. 6. 62. Among the defense-economics...

...). Two months before, Behrens had delivered a paper to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin that sought to defend and explain the New Eco- nomic System. The Soviet Union, Behrens argued, was not the typical model for socialist development. In fact, socialist planning...

... of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics . Chicago. Tintner , G. , and E. M. Fels. 1967 . Mathematical Economics in the Soviet Union. Communist Affairs , vol. 5 , no. 5 . Vainstein , A. L. et al., eds. 1963 . National Economic Models, Theoretical Problems of Consumption . In Russian. Moscow...

...). In some contributions, the perspective on other periods before or after plays a role, but we have not included the analyses of other socialist regimes prior to the Soviet Union, or of those in Asia, South America, or Africa. This, of course, does not make these areas and periods less important or relevant...

... the Soviet Union in 1929 and his assassination in Mexico in 1940. There were, however, other critics of Kondratiev’s formalism and the statistical work of the Conjuncture Institute. In February 1926 the Insti- tute of Economics of the Russian Association of Research Institutes in Social Science held two...

...), the Amer­ic­ an Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Sloan Foundation at MIT (Domar 1989b). 12. All details from Domar Papers, box 7, Soviet Union. UNCORRECTED PROOFS Anand / Domar s Comparative and Historical Imagination 505 among...

... Science . London : University of Chicago Press . Ladejinsky , Wolf . 1934a . “ Collectivization of Agriculture in the Soviet Union I .” Political Science Quarterly 49 , no. 1 : 1 – 43 . Ladejinsky , Wolf . 1934b . “ Collectivization of Agriculture in the Soviet Union II...

.... And if we do not do it, someone else will. 19. Ivan Boldyrev, in this volume, asserts that after World War II, the Soviet Union was a country of engineers. Boldyrev examines how a group of control engineers led by Mark Aiz- erman at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow turned from the cybernetics...