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The author, who came to the Soviet Union in 1957 from the West, describes his own experience in the totalitarian regime in the USSR and the attitudes of the leading Russian mathematicians of his generation to the regime in the period from 1957 to 1987.
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Sossinsky, A.B. (2024). The Practice of Mathematics in a Totalitarian Society. In: Sriraman, B. (eds) Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_69
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