id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11084 O'Brien, Brickford Russian Libraries- The Door Swings Open 1957-04-30 5 .pdf application/pdf 2991 140 58 Hope was strongly expressed that some kind of enduring tie might be formed with scholars of the West and that the ex- change of library materials might in- crease. The number of libraries in the Soviet 217 Union must be numbered in the thou- sands-~50,000, according to the British publication, The World of Learning.l Most of these are comparable to Amer- ican community and county libraries, but there are also large public libraries in each of the Republics, as well as great central repositories in Leningrad and Moscow. cache/crl-11084.pdf txt/crl-11084.txt