ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the internal transfer of cybernetics and computer technologies within the Soviet Union in the 1950s-60s. Focusing on the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania (the Lithuanian SSR), the transfer of cybernetics is approached as a complex process of formal and informal interactions. The main argument is that internal techno-scientific1 transfer was not limited to centrally set policies. Internal transfer also took place through a dialogue between the political and scientific centres (Moscow, Leningrad) and the periphery (Vilnius), and in this dialogue, informal networks had a social and economic importance that cannot be overestimated.
