What was scientific publication access like in the USSR from the late 1950s-mid 1970s? What kind of access did Western scientists have to Soviet learning, and vice versa? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

What was scientific publication access like in the USSR from the late 1950s-mid 1970s? What kind of access did Western scientists have to Soviet learning, and vice versa?

by screwyoushadowban

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Hi, not discouraging further contributions here, but FYI a related question came in a couple of weeks ago - check out (or join) the conversation here

I've heard that it's a common issue in some parts of academia for PhD students to write their dissertations only to find out that someone in the USSR already wrote about this topic decades ago. What were the implications of this in the early 1990s when the Soviet archives were released to the West?