How Not to Network a Nation. The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

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ACPR (avtomatizirovannaya sistema pla- novyikh raschetov), 167 Actors, market, 22 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 92. ...

288 Index Automatic System of Planning Accounts (ACPR), 167 Automatic System of State Statistics (ASGS), 167 Automation, 33, 39, ...

Index 289 as cybernetic organization, 57, 103 economic camps, 64–71, 102 Gossnab and Gosplan, 58–60, 62–63, 72 growth of, 59 hie ...

290 Index Council of Ministers, 214 CSA (tsentral’noe statisticheskoe uprav- leniye). See Central Statistical Admin- istration ( ...

Index 291 and political reform, 70–71, 77–78 Economic value, 143 EGSVTs (edinnay gosudarstvennaya set’ vyicheslitel’nikh tsentro ...

292 Index Heavenly and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies, 23 Heisenberg, Werner, 32 Heterarchical networks, 57, 96, 175 Heterarchy, 11, ...

Index 293 120, 122, 137–139, 144, 148, 169, 174, 178, 181–185, 191, 198, 216 Knowledge base, 9 Knowledge economy, 99 Kolman, Ern ...

294 Index Media technologies, 205–206 Mendeleev, Dmitri, 32 Merton, Robert, 97 MESM (malaya electronicheskaya schet- naya mashin ...

Index 295 and ASUs, 153–155, 167–168, 192 automated operations, 103 as brain, 119–120 and CEMI, 138–139, 141–146 and command eco ...

296 Index Profit-by-planning model, 69 Profit-in-command system, 70 Profit reforms, 65–66, 152 Project Cybersyn, 9, 27–28, 120 P ...

Index 297 mind-machine analogy, 37–38 and politics, 52, 56, 104 post-Stalinist rehabilitation, 32–35, 191 promotion of, 44–48 St ...

298 Index Ukraine, 136 UNIAC, 126 Unified Communication System (ESS), 81, 97–101, 103–104 Unified State Network of Computing Cen ...