It was established in July 1947 under the guidance of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences [ru].

[1] The publication is considered the successor of the magazine Under the Banner of Marxism which was published in Moscow from 1922 to 1944.

The magazine was created on the initiative of the prominent Soviet statesman and ideologue Andrei Zhdanov in 1947.

"[3] Two years later the magazine published "The Main Features of Cybernetics" by Sergei Sobolev, Alexey Lyapunov and Anatoly Kitov which defended cybernetics against the unwarranted criticism by philosophers of what they regarded as a bono-fide science.

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