https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a098a8a5-c4ea-4e75-a9df-c18c0d6c27c8 The Soviet Union had a chance to computerize and automate its economy. Why did efforts to achieve this vision not succeed? This video covers a brief history of cybernetics in the USSR and offers some explanations for the ultimate demise of automated planning in the Soviet context.Narration, script, and editing by M. Animated intro by Jack, co-host of the Auxiliary Statements podcast @AuxStatements on Twitter. Intro music by Charles Tristan: https://soundcloud.com/charles-tristanPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/themarxistpro... Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarxistProjectReferences: Abramov, Roman Nikolaevich. 2016. “Soviet Technocratic Mythologies as a Form of the ‘Theory of Missed Opportunities:’ On the Example of the History of Cybernetics in the USSR.” Sociology of Science and Technology 8 (2): 61–78. “Computers to Improve Soviet Industrial Management.” 1965. Central Intelligence Agency. Gerovitch, Slava. 2008. “InterNyet: Why the Soviet Union Did Not Build a Nationwide Computer Network.” History and Technology 24 (4): 335-350. Peters, Benjamin. 2016. How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. The MITPress. Safronov, Alexei Vasilievich. 2020. “Computerization of the Planned Economy in the USSR: Projects of Scientists and the Needs of Practitioners.” Sociology of Science and Technology 11 (3): 22–41. Safronov, Alexei Vasilievich. 2022. “Bureaucratic and Technological Limitations of Computerization of Planning in the USSR.” Economicheskaya Politika 17 (2): 120–45. Trachtenberg, Anna Davidovna. 2006. “The Myth of the Greatness of Electricity Within the Soviet Technocratic Utopia: Glushkov’s ‘OGAS’ [ Миф о Величии Электричества в Рамках Советской Технократической Утопии: «ОГАС» Академика Глушкова.].” Discourse-P 6 (1): 45–47.00:00 - 00:48 Background 00:49 - 01:01 Intro 01:02 - 03:55 A Brief History 03:56 - 05:44 Picturing Automated Socialism: Motivations for Automated Planning 05:45 - 07:06 Picturing Automated Socialism: EASU 07:07 - 10:21 Picturing Automated Socialism: OGAS 10:22 - 13:50 What Went Wrong?: The Political 13:51 - 15:16 What Went Wrong?: The Technical 15:17 - 16:17 What Went Wrong?: A Fundamental Incompatibility? 16:18 - 18:29 Conclusion Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:02:03 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a098a8a5-c4ea-4e75-a9df-c18c0d6c27c8 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.