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crl-11273	Ruggles, Melville J.	Translations of Soviet Publications	1959-08-31	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3848	159	53	O W I N G INTEREST in developments within the Soviet Union in the past few years has stimulated unprecedented American desire to gain access to infor- mation printed in Soviet publications. These circumstances combined lead to the following situation: a large propor- tion of all U.S. scientists and engineers are interested in the content of Soviet publication in their fields, but only a small percentage of this large group can read Russian; conversely only a small proportion of social scientists and hu- manists are interested in following So- viet developments in their disciplines, but of those who are interested in get- SEPTEMBER 1959 347 ting at the content of Soviet publications a very high percentage can read Rus- sian.1 Despite the above generalizations which indicate an apparent greater need of natural scientists and engineers for translations from the Russian, there is nevertheless a rather heavy demand for translations on the part of faculty mem- bers and researchers in other fields.	cache/crl-11273.pdf	txt/crl-11273.txt