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The ASUification (or ASUchivaniye) of the Soviet Union amounted to, the work-
ers joked in Russian, the bitchification of the country because in Russian
ASUchivaniye shares the same root as the swearword suka.
Malinovksy, Istoriya vyichisletel’nikh tekhniki v litsakh, 91, also 84–93.
Malinvosky, Vechno Khranit, 66–67.
Beissinger, Scientific Management, 249.
Glushkov, “Vopreki Avtoritetam.”
Viktor Glushkov, “Ten Billion Accountants Needed,” RAND Report on Soviet
Cybernetics 2 (3) (1972): 72–73, accessed April 15, 2015, http://www.rand.org/
content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2007/R960.3.pdf.
Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, 280.
Hughes, Rescuing Prometheus.
Eric P. Hoffmann and Robbin F. Laird, Soviet Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet
Union in the Advanced Industrial Era (Durham: Duke University Press, 1985), 115.
Ibid., 115.
Ibid., 116.
Ibid., 116–117.
Ibid., 116.
Viktor Glushkov, “Zabetniye myislic dlya tekh, kto ostaetsya,” January 10, 1982,
Akademik Glushkov—pioneer kibernetiki (Kiev: n.p., 2003), accessed April 15, 2015,
http://www.komproekt.ru/new/zavetnie_m.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Stavchikov, “Romantika pervyikh issledovannii i proektov i
ikh protivorechnaya sud’ba” [“Romanticism of Early Research and Projects and
Their Contradictory Fate”], in an unnamed, unpublished history of the Central Eco-
nomic Mathematical Institute (TsEMI), chap. 2, Moscow, accessed 2008, 17. (See
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Stavchikov, “Romantika,” 1–2.
Ibid., 16–17.
Ibid., 17.
In The End of the Millennium, Manuel Castells blames the incompatibility of a
vertical statist hierarchy with horizontal information networks for the collapse of
the Soviet Union, even while identifying ways that the Soviet Union did not behave
as such a structure. Simultaneously, Gerovitch, in “InterNyet,” claims that “Soviet
cyberneticians envisioned an organic, self-regulating system, but paradoxically they