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Soviet Information Processing: Recent Theory and Experience

Soviet Information Processing: Recent Theory and Experience ERIK P. HOFFMANN (Albany, N.Y., U.S.A.) Soviet Information Processing: Recent Theory and Experience Contemporary Soviet political leaders and social theorists are engaging in consider- able public discussion about the importance of gathering and utilizing more and better information in policymaking and administration. This is a significant and easily docu- mentable assertion. But are changes in information processing really taking place in the day-to-day work of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)? This is a very important question and a difficult one to answer. Western and Soviet analysts have presented logical arguments pro and con. Verifiable information, however, is hard to come by. Careful inferences will therefore have to be made in analyzing the impact of modern communications technology on the Soviet political system. But one's in- ferences and arguments can and should be founded on a broader base of empirical evidence, which, as I have discovered from reading some of the recent Soviet literature on "the scientific management of society" (nauchnoe upravlenie obshchestvom), "Party construction" (partiinoe stroitel'stvo), and "democratic centralism," is available. The purpose of this study is to try to learn more about the impact of technological change on Soviet policymaking and administration in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

Soviet Information Processing: Recent Theory and Experience

Hoffmann, Erik P.
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review , Volume 2 (1): 22 – Jan 1, 1975
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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1075-1262
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ERIK P. HOFFMANN (Albany, N.Y., U.S.A.) Soviet Information Processing: Recent Theory and Experience Contemporary Soviet political leaders and social theorists are engaging in consider- able public discussion about the importance of gathering and utilizing more and better information in policymaking and administration. This is a significant and easily docu- mentable assertion. But are changes in information processing really taking place in the day-to-day work of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)? This is a very important question and a difficult one to answer. Western and Soviet analysts have presented logical arguments pro and con. Verifiable information, however, is hard to come by. Careful inferences will therefore have to be made in analyzing the impact of modern communications technology on the Soviet political system. But one's in- ferences and arguments can and should be founded on a broader base of empirical evidence, which, as I have discovered from reading some of the recent Soviet literature on "the scientific management of society" (nauchnoe upravlenie obshchestvom), "Party construction" (partiinoe stroitel'stvo), and "democratic centralism," is available. The purpose of this study is to try to learn more about the impact of technological change on Soviet policymaking and administration in the

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Published: Jan 1, 1975

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