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It was in the early 1970s that the transfer of Western technology to the Soviet Union first became a public issue in the form in which it has since been debated. Such ‘transfers’, by both commercial and non-commercial means, had in fact been occurring since the Russian Revolution of 1917; and a three-volume study by Sutton, describing these earlier transfers, was already in course of publication. Nevertheless, a sequence of conspicuous events drew the attention of politicians, officials and academics to the subject around 1970.
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A.C. Sutton, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 3 vols covering 1917–65 (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution, 1969, 1971 and 1973).
R. Conquest and others, ‘Détente: An Evaluation’, Survey, Spring-Summer 1974, at p. 10.
R.W. Campbell, as reported in discussion in Campbell and P. Marer (eds), East-West Trade and Technology Transfer: an Agenda of Research Needs (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University International Development Research Center, 1974) at p. 14.
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Hanson, P. (1981). Introduction. In: Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05163-2_1
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