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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The Red Atlas - The Story of How the Red Atlas Came to Be
The red atlas is a collection of maps by Alexander Nekrassov, based on his research into the soviet map. The book was published in 20 17 after being picked up by wired dot com and went global. It has been described as 'the world's first cartographic guide to Soviet mapping' But how did it come to be? And what do you think about your work now?
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