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

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234 Notes to Chapter 1


10 4. D. G. Malcolm, “Review of Cybernetics at [sic] Service of Communism, vol. 1,”
Operations Research 11 (1963): 1012.




  1. Conway and Siegelman, Dark Hero of the Information Age, 316.




  2. CIA Intelligence Memorandum, No. 0757/64, “The Meaning of Cybernetics in
    the USSR,” February 26, 1964, 2, also partially quoted in Flo Conway and Jim Siegel-
    man, Dark Hero of the Information Age (New York: Basic, 316).




  3. CIA Intelligence Memorandum, No. 0757/64, “The Meaning of Cybernetics in
    the USSR,” 3.




  4. Ibid., 3.




  5. Ibid., 3. See also Gerovitch, “The Cybernetics Scare and the Origins of the Inter-
    net,” 35.




  6. Gerovitch, “The Cybernetics Scare and the Origins of the Internet.”




  7. Gerovitch, “InterNyet,” 340.




  8. Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, 249–251.




  9. Yu. Kapitonova and A. A. Letichevsky, Paradigmi i idei akademika V. M. Glush-
    kova (Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 2003), 296.




  10. Igor’ A. Poletaev, “O matematicheskom modelirovnanii,” Problemy kibernetiki
    27 (1973): 147.




  11. Igor’ A. Poletaev, “K opredeleniiu poniatiia ‘informatsiia,’” in Issledovanniia po
    kibernetike, ed. A. Lyapunov (Moscow: Sovetskoe radio 1970), 212.




  12. Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, 216.




  13. Simon Kassel, Soviet Cybernetics Research: A Preliminary Study of Organizations and
    Personalities (Santa Monica: RAND, 1971), v.




  14. See the titles of Wiener’s Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal
    and the Machine and his The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
    (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1950).




  15. Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, 208.




  16. Ibid., 209–210.




  17. Ibid., 210.




  18. Pospelov and Fet, Ocherki istorii informatiki v Rossii.




  19. Conway and Siegelman, Dark Hero, 316.




  20. Norbert Wiener, “Obschestvo i nauka,” Voprosi Filosofiii 7 (1961): 49–52.



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