# Literaturnaya Gazeta **Domain:** Media / Soviet Intellectual History **Doc Type:** Institution **Maturity:** Contextual **Related:** [[Anti-Cybernetics Campaign]], [[Mikhail Yaroshevsky]], [[Soviet Cybernetics]], [[Public Mythology]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Definition **Literaturnaya Gazeta** is a Russian and Soviet literary newspaper that became one venue for early Soviet public attacks on cybernetics around 1950. ## Kybernetiks Context Its role marks the split between operational capability and authorized public description. Computing could develop in restricted technical institutions while a public cultural organ framed cybernetics as ideologically illegitimate. ## Backlinks - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] - [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]