Index 297
mind-machine analogy, 37–38
and politics, 52, 56, 104
post-Stalinist rehabilitation, 32–35,
191
promotion of, 44–48
Stalinist opposition, 30–32
subfields, 47
and technocratic neutrality, 51
and technological reform, 51–52
and Western networks, 91–92
Soviet Internet, 1, 4–5, 11. See also
Internet
Soviet socialist republics, 213
Soviet Union. See also Soviet cybernetics
collapse of, 175
and command economy, 58–59
as corrupt corporation, 193–194
and cybernetic analogies, 54–55
economic and industrial growth of,
59–60, 185–186
economic corruption in, 188
five-year plans, 58, 166, 183
funding environment, 143
government of, 213–214
interministry competition, 183
knowledge base, 9
military-civilian divide, 89–90, 92–93,
159, 180, 214
military expenditures, 78–79
political economy, 60
political structure of, 213–214
population growth, 61
post-collapse era, 5
postwar science in, 29
and private interests, 201–202
public and private life in, 195–196
research institutes, 136
science under Stalin, 34
as state of exception, 3
universalization of science, 47
and U.S. disinformation, 169
Sovnarkhozy, 63
Space surveillance system, 83–84
Spencer, Herbert, 55
Sputnik I, 92
Stalin, Joseph, 4, 29, 31–34, 58–60, 62–
63, 69, 75, 135, 199, 213
Starovsky, V. N., 147, 150–151, 160–162,
217
State
as brain, 55, 120, 202
as nervous system, 202
Statistics, 84
Stavchikov, Aleksandr, 173–174
Stigler’s law of eponymy, 97
Stognii, A. A., 118–119
Store Eternally, 167
St. Panteleimon’s Cathedral
(Panteleimonivs’kii sobor), 128
Struik, Dirk, 49
Studies in the Structure of the American
Economy, 69
Surveillance, 200
Survivable networks, 95, 97
Suslov, Mikhail, 163–164
System A, 84
Systema Perimetr, 6
System for the Optimal Functioning of
the Economy (SOFE), 145, 160Tamm, Igor, 34
Technology, 3, 8, 104–105, 196–197,
204
Tektology: A Universal Organizational Sci-
ence, 28
Telegraphs, 86
The Tempter, 50
TETIVA, 84
Timofeef-Ressovsky, Nikolai, 46–47
Tito, Josip Broz, 199
Tolkachy, 75
Translations, 9–11
Trotsky, Leon, 7, 58
Trubetzkoi, Nikolai, 32
Turing, Alan, 27
Twitter, 198