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
your family'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historical document of an era that sometimes seems less distant,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.
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