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Reconstructs the paths that brought Western scientific publications to scientists in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1953 at Academy of Sciences Institutes, universities, military laboratories, prison laboratories, and forced camps. Examines the effects that the conflict between the official position and the state's scientific needs had on…