John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
New Books in the History of Science
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What Was Your Initial Objaction When You First Met These Maps?
The reaction was astonishment, amazement and fascination. The most obvious difficulty was he completee tof anybody had in any way been associated with the production of these maps. Partly because of massive secrecy in the soviet unor x sove union, russian federationit carries forward. And you just had to get under the skin of it. You just had to start digging and see wit we encountered,. many, many difficulties along the way.
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