Reefs of Myths: Towards the History of Cybernetics in the Soviet Union

The struggle of various scientific schools (by the way usually none of them has the monopoly for the truth) is normally for the science as well as the periodical change of research paradigm. But Soviet ideology always pretended on exclusivity in the world of ideas. It usually led to the permanent conflicts between scientists and ideologists revealed in various ideological campaigns (in Soviet literature softly named as “discussions”) directed against to the particular science or the separate scientific schools or directions.