Williams, J. The Compleat Strategyst, or A Primer on the Theory of Strategic Games (Sovershennyy strateg). 1960. First Russian edition.

Вильямс, Дж. Д. Совершенный стратег, или Букварь по теории стратегических игр / перевод с английского Ю. С. Голубева-Новожилова ; под редакцией И. А. Полетаева ; редактор В. И. Грознова ; обложка художника С. А. Алексеева.
Москва : издательство «Советское радио», 1960. 272 страницы, с иллюстрациями в тексте ; 20 см.
Твердый издательский переплет.
Состояние хорошее: на крышках потёртости, заломы и небольшие сколы бумаги по краям, особенно у углов; корешок тканевый, без повреждений. Блок крепкий, чистый, титульные страницы с лёгким возрастным тонированием.
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Williams, John D. The Compleat Strategyst, or A Primer on the Theory of Strategic Games / translated from the English by Yu. S. Golubev-Novozhilov ; edited by I. A. Poletaev ; editor V. I. Groznova ; cover by artist S. A. Alekseev. First Russian edition.
Moscow : "Sovetskoe Radio" Publishing House, 1960. 272 pp. : illustrations in text ; 20 cm.
Hardcover.
Condition good: rubbing, creasing, and small paper chips at the edges of the boards, especially at the corners; cloth spine undamaged. Text block firm and clean, title pages lightly age-toned.

The first Russian translation of J. D. Williams's classic popular introduction to game theory, first published by McGraw-Hill in 1954 with its well-known pictorial illustrations, and brought into Russian at the height of the Soviet Thaw-era opening to cybernetics and mathematical decision theory. The editor of this translation, Igor Andreevich Poletaev, was among the central figures of early Soviet cybernetics: co-translator of Morse and Kimball's Methods of Operations Research (1956) and author of Signal (1958), the first Soviet book-length treatment of cybernetics, and later, in 1959, the instigator of the celebrated "physicists and lyricists" debate in Komsomolskaya Pravda. This edition of Williams's primer, alongside Poletaev's other cybernetics-adjacent projects of the same period, was among the earliest Russian-language expositions of game theory available to a general readership, introducing Soviet audiences to concepts such as the value of a game and optimal mixed strategies through accessible worked examples and the same lightly satirical illustrated payoff matrices that had made the American original popular. The book remains sought after both as a landmark in the Soviet reception of Western mathematical decision theory and as an artifact of Poletaev's broader role in legitimising cybernetics in the USSR.