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Kassel, Soviet Cybernetics Research, 87.
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Eric P. Hoffmann and Robbin F. Laird. Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet Union in
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Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, 272.
Ibid.
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The original document proposing the EGSTVs in 1963 can be found here: Post-
anovlenie Komitet KPCC I Sovet Ministrov SSSR, “Ob uluchshenii rukovodstva vne-
dreniem vyichislitel’noi tekhniki i avtomatizirovannikh system upravleniya v
narodnoe khozyaistvo,” May 21, 1963, no. 564, Kremlin, Moscow. This document
was published for the first time in Aleksei Viktorovich Kuteinikov, “Proekt
Obschegosudarstvennoi avtomatizirovannoi sistemi upravleniya osvetskoi eko-
nomikoi (OGAS) I problem ego realizatii v 1960–1980-x gg,” PhD dissertation,
Moscow State University, Moscow, 2011. In addition, the 1967 proposal approving
the regional Ukrainian GSTVs Project in 1967 can be found in Postanovleniya soveta
ministrov Ukrainian SSR, “O vnedrenii avtomatizirovannikh system upravleniya s
premeneniem vyichislitel’noi tekhniki,” May 21, 1967, no. 338, and established by
subsequent order of the Minister of Black Metallurgy, Ukrainian SSR, on March 11,
1968, no. 68.
Gerovitch, “InterNyet,” 344. See also Iuliia Kapitonova and Aleksandr Let-
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V. P. Derkach, ed. Akademik V. M. Glushkov—pioneer kiberniki (Kiev: Yunior,
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