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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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Do We Really Know About the Soviet Topographic Maps?

This was essentially a very secretive enterprise. And up until the dissolution of the us, very few people knew about it. Do we know if countries like the u k, or the us? Did they realize that they they were being mapped? Or if they did, tt they comprehende the sheer scale of this endeavouramost certainly not.

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