Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of System Thinking in Russia

Bogdanov's Tektology - towards a new paradigm, Leonid Abalkin. Part One Philosophical foundations: Bogdanov and the development of science in the 20th century, Galina Alekseeva sources and precursers of Bogdanov's Tektology, James White from Empiriomonism to Tektology, Vadim Sadovsky monist philosophy as the basis of Tektology, Natalya Kuzminykh biological ideas in Tektology, Simona Pustilnik pioneers in systems thinking - Bogdanov and Vernadsky, Petr Plyutto psychological applications of Tektology, Georgii Gloveli discussion - philosophical foundations. Part Two Applications in economics: the economic ideas of Bogdanov, Nadezhda Figurovskaya Bogdanov's Tektology and economic theory, Andrei Belykh organization theory and the theory of economic evolution, Vladmir Maevsky plan and market in Bogdanov's Tektology, Saltan Dzarasov Tektology and economic reconstruction, Victor Parmenov discussion - applications in economics. Part Three General theory of systems: Tektology in contemporary perspective, Nikita Moiseev Tektology: birth of a discipline?, Peter Dudley Tektology and GST - a comparative analysis, Yunir Urmantsev Bogdanov and the idea of co-evolution, Alexander Ogurtsov Tektology and organizational systems, Nemil Gorelik a Tektological approach to multi-connectivity and dualism in complicated systems, David Shapiro social genetics and organizational science, Mikhail Kuzmin discussion - general theory of systems. Appendices: Tektology - editions and translations, John Biggart, et al profiles of Russian scientists and philosophers, John Bigart and Francis King.