Accounting and Control are the Basis of Socialism: Computing Technology in USSR (1917-1941)

Valery V. Shilov; Sergey A. Silantiev

doi:10.1109/EnT.2019.00019

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Accounting and Control are the Basis of Socialism: Computing Technology in USSR (1917-1941)

Ch. 19. P. 66–69.

Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev

The report describes the measures taken in the USSR for the production of computing equipment between World Wars, and analyzes their effectiveness. It is shown that the main incentive for the development of their production were the needs of accounting. It is shown also that neither the nomenclature, nor the quantity or quality of mechanical computing devices met the requirements of time, which, probably, together with the appearance of new, extremely complex tasks after the end of the war, stipulated the development of a fundamentally new, electronic computing technology.

Keywords: computing technology mechanization of accounting arithmometer adding machine tabulator

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2019 International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Computer Science (EnT)

IEEE, 2019.

Ein Arithmometer für Lenin - Die Prawda enthüllt die Wahrheit

Shilov V., Basov A., Historische Bürowelt 2025 No. 141 P. 7–11

In the collection of the State Historical Museum (Moscow, Russia) there is preserved an arithmometer. The plate affixed to the machine is dated December 1920, and carries a dedication of the machine to Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution and the founder of the Soviet Union. The present article traces the origin and ...

Added: September 18, 2025

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Added: September 20, 2021