Book The Red Atlas: How The Soviet Union Secretly Mapped The World Pdf ISBN-10 9780226389578, ISBN-13 978-0226389

The Red Atlas: How The Soviet Union Secretly Mapped The World

By autor: John Davies
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Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had satellite imagery of any neighborhood at a finger’s reach, the amount the Soviet government knew about y...

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (October 17, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780226389578
ISBN-13: 978-0226389578
ASIN: 022638957X
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 95198
Format: PDF ePub fb2 djvu ebook

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An interesting look at Soviet mapping. I was expecting more of a "how they did it" with stories of secret measurements, dead drops, and the stealing of city plans. Instead it's more of a comparison between maps (the British map says the water depth ...

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s city, street, and even your home would astonish you. Revealing how this was possible, The Red Atlas is the never-before-told story of the most comprehensive mapping endeavor in history and the surprising maps that resulted.From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, DC, and London to towns like Pontiac, MI and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. What they chose to include on these maps can seem obvious like locations of factories and ports, or more surprising, such as building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by actual Soviet feet on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.A fantastic historical document of an era that sometimes seems less distant, The Red Atlas offers an uncanny view of the world through the eyes of Soviet strategists and spies.