![]() Yet, the state also had an imperative to publicize Soviet achievements in science and technology even as it kept most of this activity secret. Controls over the circulation of information were particularly strict relating to matters of national security, which usually subsumed most scientific and engineering activity. Information that we might consider benign in the Western context was off-limits to most of the general populace throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. Secrecy was endemic in Soviet society and culture. ![]() ![]() Asif Siddiqi (History, Fordham University) ![]()
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