Vadim Sadovsky

Vadim Nikolayevitch Sadovsky (1934–2012) was a Russian professor and Chief of the Department for Philosophical and Sociological Problems of Systems Research, Institute for Systems Analysis, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.^[1] He is known as a promoter of systems theory in Russia.^[2]^[3]

Selected publications

Blauberg, Igor, Viktorovich, V. N. Sadovsky, and E. G. Yudin. Systems theory: Philosophical and methodological problems. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.
Vadim N. Sadovsky and Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). A Science of goal formulation : American and Soviet discussions of cybernetics and systems theory. New York, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1991.
Bogdanov, Aleksandr, and Vadim N. Sadovsky. Bogdanov's Tektology. University of Hull, Centre for Systems Studies, 1996.

Articles, a selection

Sadovsky, V. N. "Foundations of general systems theory." М.: Sov. Radio (1974).
Blauberg, I. V., V. N. Sadovskii, and B. G. Iudin. "Philosophical Principles of Systemicity and the Systems Approach." Soviet Studies in Philosophy 17.4 (1979): 44–68.

References

^ "Professor Vadim Nikolayevitch Sadovsky". www.tkpw.net. The Karl Popper Web. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
^ Umpleby S. A. (1987) "American and Soviet discussions of the foundations of cybernetics and general systems theory." Cybernetics and Systems 18(2): 177–193
^ Biggart, John, Peter Dudley, and Francis King. Alexander Bogdanov and the origins of systems thinking in Russia. Avebury, 1998.