About the book: 1991 / Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov (1873–1928) - Russian writer, economist, philosopher, natural scientist. In 1908 he completed and published his best science fiction work - the novel "Red Star", which can be considered the forerunner of Soviet science fiction. At the same time, he carried out active revolutionary work in close contact with V.I. Lenin. In 1913–1917. created a two-volume essay “General Organizational Science”, in which he put forward a number of ideas that were later developed in cybernetics: the principles of feedback, modeling, system analysis of the subject being studied, etc. After the October Revolution, A. Bogdanov devoted himself to work in biology and medicine. In 1926, he headed the world's first Institute of Blood Transfusion and died after an unsuccessful experiment on himself in 1928.