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

The "utterly fascinating" untold story of Soviet Russia's global military mapping program-featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian).

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, Washington, D.C., and Lon...